Wright v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1998
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on White v. Edwards Chevrolet Co. · Conrad v. Taylor · Baker, Adm'r v. Richardson · Hall v. Miles · Harris v. Wright
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of the relevancy and materiality of a photograph is left to the sound discretion of the trial judge. Photographs that are calculated to arouse the sympathies or prejudices of ¿he jury are properly excluded, particularly if they, are not substantially necessary or instructive to show material facts or conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.