32 Ill. App. 3d 736 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably 91 Ill. 2d 536 - People v. Huckstead (1982), 105 Ill. App. 3d 1023 - People v. Savory (1982)
82 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 · Pointer v. Texas · Harris v. New York · Alford v. United States · United States v. Hale
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Long before the United States Supreme Court held, in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), 384 U.S. 436 , 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 , 86 S. Ct. 1602 , that defendants have a right to remain silent in the face of police interrogation, the Illinois Supreme Court held it was error for the State to offer testimony as to defendant’s refusal to make a statement. In People v. Rothe (1934), 358 Ill. 52, 57 , 192 N.E. 777 , this refusal had been offered, as here, by the testimony of an officer. As clarification for its reversal, the court stated ‘the fact that [the defendants] refused to make a statement had no tendency to either prove or disprove the charge against them. The admission of this evidence was prejudicial, and since it was neither material nor relevant to the issue being tried it should have been excluded.’ This rule was reaffirmed by the court in People v. Lewerenz (1962), 24 Ill. 2d 295, 299 , 181 N.E.2d 99 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Long before the United States Supreme Court held, in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), 384 U.S. 436 , 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 , 86 S. Ct. 1602 , that defendants have a right to remain silent in the face of police interrogation, the Illinois Supreme Court held it was error for the State to offer testimony as to defendant’s refusal to make a statement. In People v. Rothe (1934), 358 Ill. 52, 57 , 192 N.E. 777 , this refusal had been offered, as here, by the testimony of an officer. As clarification for its reversal, the court stated ‘the fact that [the defendants] refused to make a statement had no tendency to either prove or disprove the charge against them. The admission of this evidence was prejudicial, and since it was neither material nor relevant to the issue being tried it should have been excluded.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When an affirmative defense of self-defense is raised as here, the appropriate issue instruction must be given in order that the jury understands that the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in using the force which the defendant’s evidence claimed was used.” People v. Wright (1975), 32 Ill. App. 3d 736, 744 , 336 N.E.2d 18, 25 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.