State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Ramos v. Town of Vernon (2000), Rayhall v. Akim Co. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 75 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 Dandridge v. Williams · State v. Golding · Dunn v. Blumstein · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · Chapman v. United States
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he analytical predicate [of consideration of an equal protection claim] is a determination of who are the persons similarly situated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person is guilty of aggravated sexual assault in the first degree when such person commits sexual assault in the first degree as provided in section 53a-70 , and in the commission of such offense (1) such person uses or is armed with and threatens the use of or displays or represents by such persons words or conduct that such person possesses a deadly weapon, (2) with intent to disfigure the victim seriously and permanently, or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a member or organ of the victim's body, such person causes such injury to such victim; (3) under circumstances evincing an extreme indifference to human life such person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a risk of death to the victim, and thereby causes serious physical injury to such victim, or (4) such person is aided by two or more other persons actually present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]imple robbery and larceny from the person constitute two separate and distinct crimes.... [A] defendant who has committed acts satisfying the elements of both crimes could be convicted of and sentenced for both offenses, without violating the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.