Wright v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1999
7 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 Alonzo Bailey v. State of Alabama · Pollock v. Williams · Kincaid v. Commonwealth · In re Boyd · Commonwealth v. McCue's Executors
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Costs assessed against a person who has been convicted of a crime are not part of his punishment for the crime. Commonwealth v. McCue’s Ex’rs, 109 Va. 302, 304 , 63 S.E. 1066, 1067 (1909); Anglea v. Commonwealth, 51 Va. (10 Gratt.) 696 , 701 (1853) (because costs constitute no part of the punishment for a crime, a pardon does not relieve the pardoned felon of his obligation to pay the costs); see Kincaid v. Commonwealth, 200 Va. 341, 344 , 105 S.E.2d 846, 848-849 (1958); Ex parte Wilson, Ohio App., 183 N.E.2d 625 , 89 Ohio L.Abs. 575 (1962).””
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.