Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Mitchell v. State · Williams v. State · Wright v. State · Smith 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who instigates prosecution by making an affidavit charging a named person with the commission of a penal offense, on which a warrant is issued, or an indictment or accusation is based.”
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.