396 Pa. Super. 276 - Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 413 Pa. Super. 235 - Commonwealth v. Eicher (1992), 413 Pa. Super. 397 - Commonwealth v. Dukeman (1992)
30 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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · 242 Pa. Super. 303 - Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Weiskerger
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) mak[es] knowingly false representations designed to induce the belief that such conduct is not prohibited; or (2) employ[s] methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such an offense will be committed by persons other than those who are ready to commit it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“entrapment has occurred is a question for the jury, unless the evidence points to only one conclusion, in which case it may be decided as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This does not mean that the police may not act so as to detect those engaged in criminal conduct and ready and willing to commit further crimes should the occasion arise. Such indeed is their obligation. It does mean that in holding out inducements they should act in such a manner as is likely to induce to the commission of crime only these persons and not others who would normally avoid crime____ This test shifts attention from the record and predisposition of the particular defendants to the conduct of the police and the likelihood, objectively considered, that it would entrap only those ready and willing to commit crime.”
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.