Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Roach v. Commonwealth (1996), Wright v. Angelone (1998)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Hernandez v. New York · Miller v. Fenton · Brewster v. Derwinski
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 89 (1986) the Supreme Court ruled that purposeful discrimination based upon race in selecting jurors violates the Equal Protection Clause. Once an accused makes a prima facie showing of such purposeful discrimination, a prosecutor must give a reasonable explanation in rebuttal, showing that his reason for a peremptory strike was race neutral. Id. at 93-94 . If the prosecutor’s reason is based upon factors other than a juror’s race, it is deemed to be race neutral. Hernandez v. New York, [ 500 U.S. 352 ], 111 S.Ct. 1859, 1866 (1991). To constitute an equal protection violation, discriminatory intent must be inherent in the prosecutor’s explanation. Id. A trial court’s determination whether the reason is race neutral is entitled to great deference. Spencer v. Commonwealth, 238 Va. 295, 310 , 384 S.E.2d 785, 795 (1989), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1093 (1990). The determination will not be reversed on appeal unless it is “clearly erroneous.” Hernandez , [500] U.S. at _, 111 S.Ct. at 1871 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“allowing the automobile to be started without a key. Latent fingerprints recovered from the Buick later were determined to match Wright's fingerprints. On October 14, a Washington, D.C. police officer, who had known Wright for a number of years, saw Wright operating a burgundy Nissan Maxima automobile. Wright looked at the officer and then”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Angelone“She was hesitant to answer questions about the death penalty and she said that she would have to be absolutely sure before she could ever vote for the death penalty in any case,”
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.