Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Wilson v. Greene (1998), Avent v. Com. (2010)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Fitzgerald v. Virginia · Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth · Giarratano v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Gills v. Commonwealth
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, when a person voluntarily becomes so intoxicated that he is incapable of deliberation or premeditation, he cannot commit a class of murder that requires proof of a deliberate and premeditated killing.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If you find that the defendant was so greatly intoxicated by the voluntary use of alcohol and drugs that he was incapable of deliberating or premeditating, then you cannot find him guilty of murder in the first degree. Voluntary intoxication is not a defense to murder in the second degree or voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avent v. Com.“so greatly intoxicated ... that he was incapable of deliberating or premeditating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avent v. Com.
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.