Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Mulcahy v. State (1960), Collins v. State (1990)
73 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 Watson v. State · Basoff v. State · Judy v. State · Lusby v. State · Luery v. State
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t still appears that not much in the way of corroboration is required and that it is not necessary in and of itself for the corroborative evidence to be sufficient to convict, yet the corroborative evidence must support the testimony of the accomplice as to some of the material facts tending to show that the accused was either identified with the perpetrators of the crime or had participated in the commission of the crime itself.” (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he important matter is to have [the accomplice] supported in at least some of the material points involved. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to constitute sufficient evidence upon which a finding of guilt could be based, the testimony of an accomplice must be corroborated. By that I mean it must be supported in some way by some other independent evidence. However, such corroboration need only be slight. If there is evidence independent of the testimony of the accomplice which tends to identify the accused with the perpetrators of the crime or with the commission of the crime itself, then the testimony of the accomplice may be said to have been sufficiently corroborated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. State
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.