Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably McCain v. Commonwealth (2001), Perry v. Com. (2010)
43 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Cortez
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient to support the informant's conclusions and the conclusion of the police that the informant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“followed quickly on the heels of the challenged search,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where there are exigent circumstances in which police action literally must be ‘now or never’ to preserve the evidence of the crime, it is reasonable to permit action without prior judicial evaluation. Roaden v. Kentucky, 413 U.S. 496 (1973).”
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.