Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1997
13 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Carroll v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[P]robable cause exists where `the facts and circumstances within their [the officer's] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that' an offense has been or is being committed. `The substance of all definitions [of probable cause] is a reasonable ground for belief of guilt.'" [Citations omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"However, before independent evidence of conduct or statements may be offered to indicate bias on the part of an adverse witness, the particular conduct or statement proposed to be proven must first be called to the attention of the witness whose testimony is under attack. Since no predicate of any kind had been laid by appellant during the cross-examination of Deputy Hill, the trial court's ruling on the objection was correct. Brown v. State, 50 Ala.App. 702 , 282 So.2d 322 . See Wells v. State, 292 Ala. 256 , 292 So.2d 471 ; Arnold v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 339 So.2d 616 ; C. McCormick, Evidence, Second Edition, Section 40."”
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.