39 Cal. 3d 576 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 577 - People v. Hayes (1990), 46 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Morris (1988)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 119 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · People v. Green · 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`which uniquely tends to evoke an emotional bias against . . . [one party] as an individual and which has very little effect on the issues.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arrived at or determined upon as a result of careful thought and weighing of considerations for and against the proposed course of action.”
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.