Wright v. State of Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 9 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 410 later decisions (65 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Douglas v. Alabama (1965)
104 federal appellate · 9 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Terminiello v. Chicago
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 410 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the possibility of disorder by others cannot justify exclusion of persons from a place if they otherwise have a constitutional right (founded upon the Equal Protection Clause) to be present.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]bviously, ... one cannot be punished for failing to obey the command of an officer if that command is itself violative of the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever springes the state may set for those who are endeavoring to assert rights that the state confers, the assertion of Federal rights, when plainly and reasonably made, is not to be defeated under the name of local practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Huffman v. Florida
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.