38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably State v. Lynch (1971), Monroe v. United States (1956)
3 federal appellate · 117 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Ellis v. State · United States v. Schanerman · Pfotzer v. Aqua System, Inc. · Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Murphy · Mitchell 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is now the well settled rule in this jurisdiction that a separation of a jury during the trial of a felony creates, prima facie, a cause for reversible error. A separation being shown, the burden is on the State to affirmatively establish that the separated juror or jurors were subjected to no influences or contacts that might have influenced their verdict. * * *" Wright v. State, 38 Ala.App. 64 , 79 So.2d 66, 70 , as modified by opinion of Stakely, J., on certiorari 262 Ala. 420 , 79 So.2d 74 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In general, where the accuracy of the machine in producing the recording and the accuracy of the recording being established, together with a showing as to the voluntary character of the statement, there can be no question as to the admissibility of a recorded statement, in so far as the statement is material to the issues of a case."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If the parties who were present when the recording was made are available and testify as to the statements made, the recording, even though inaudible, in *Page 256 parts, should be admitted as corroborative of the testimony of the witness or witnesses testifying to the statement."”
2 later decisions 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.