Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably State v. Diaz (1993), 416 So. 2d 1083 - Walker v. State (1982)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 Mitchell v. State
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is now the well settled rule in this jurisdiction that a separation of a jury during the trial of a felony creates, prima facie, a cause for reversible error. A separation being shown, the burden is on the State to affirmatively establish that the separated juror or jurors were subjected to no influences or contacts that might have influenced their verdict. * * *" Wright v. State, 38 Ala.App. 64 , 79 So.2d 66, 70 , as modified by opinion of Stakely, J., on certiorari 262 Ala. 420 , 79 So.2d 74 .”
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.