Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As a matter of fact they didn’t have the right to disregard what the Legislature had defined as making an habitual criminal even though juries sometimes do, and even though they had a right under the charge herein, as in all criminal charges that are properly given, to be the judges of both the facts and the law as given to them by the court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Janow v. State

2. ““I charge you that the felony charge and the habitual charge may be conducted in single proceedings but they are essentially independent of each other and the jury may find the defendant guilty on the felony charge and innocent of being a habitual criminal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crafton v. State

3. “. . and in all indictments for libel, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other criminal cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Farris v. State