Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tabb (1965), Commonwealth v. Meadows (1977)
54 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 130 Pa. Super. 536 - Com. Ex Rel. Paige v. Smith, Warden · In re Quay · 151 Pa. Super. 581 - Commonwealth v. Haimbach · Commonwealth v. Ruth
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The remedy in the court below if it concludes that error was committed in refusing to direct a verdict in favor of a defendant, is to grant a new trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . The sufficiency of the evidence must be tested according to the Commonwealth's evidence”
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.