Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1997
3 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 · Boyle v. State · Wallace v. State · 50 Ala. App. 465 - McNair v. State · 50 Ala. App. 471 - Brown 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he duty rests in the first instance on the trial court to determine whether a confession is voluntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that defendant expressed a desire for an attorney, but was accorded only the privilege of talking with one over the phone”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“determined that this defendant did knowingly and intelligently waive his right to remain silent”
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.