Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Gardner v. State (1988), Earl v. State (1981)
57 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 Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Crooker v. State of California · Degler v. State · Leo P. Reistroffer v. United States of America, W. L. Rogers v. United States of America, Marvin Norris v. United States · Finch 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the judge examined the jurors in chambers concerning possible prejudices, each stated ... that what they had read in the article was covered the previous day in court and nothing they had read would bias or prejudice their opinion as jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Wright also faces additional charges of a second count of aggravated robbery, arson, and escape in Boone County,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the final hospital report had declared him sane, and he was returned to the California court system.”
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.