State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Rahman (1986), State v. Hardy (1977)
40 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 Barker v. Wingo · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Turner v. Louisiana · State v. Johnson · State v. Spencer
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden is on an accused who asserts the denial of his right to a speedy trial to show that the delay was due to the neglect or wilfulness of the prosecution. A defendant who has himself caused the delay, or acquiesced in it, will not be allowed to convert the guarantee, designed for his protection, into a vehicle in which to escape justice.” State v. Johnson, 275 N.C. at 269 , 167 S.E. 2d at 278 ; see also State v. Wright, 290 N.C. 45 , 224 S.E. 2d 624 (1976), cert. den., 429 U.S. 1049 , 50 L.Ed. 2d 765 , 97 S.Ct. 760 (1977).”
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.