258 Cal. App. 2d 762 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1991
19 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado · People v. Jacobson · 63 Cal. 2d 386 - People v. Cotter · People v. Kiihoa
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The deputy had no way of knowing what had occurred, and [one woman] and the defendant each accused the other of responsibility for the incident. It was his duty as an officer to investigate, and he started his investigation, a general inquiry, with the routine question, ‘what happened.’ At this time defendant was not under arrest; there was not the slightest evidence in the record that he was in custody or deprived of his freedom of action. At this point the deputy was accusing no one; nor was he, through his single inquiry, ‘what happened,’ carrying out a process of interrogations in an attempt to elicit incriminating statements from defendant. The sole purpose of his question was to find out what had occurred; it is a justifiable type of routine inquiry designed to determine what actually happened, as a means of commencing an investigation.” 258 Cal.App.2d 766 , 66 Cal.Rptr. at 97 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Melot
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.