Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Parker v. Dugger (1989), 613 So. 2d 429 - Henry v. State (1992)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Hall v. State · Culberson v. Culberson · State v. Toscano · Savage v. State · Ryals 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duress will never justify the killing of an innocent third party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[l]egal recognition of duress as a defense to crimes other than homicide necessarily assumes a working hypothesis that a harm or crime of greater magnitude is avoided when the subjected person succumbs to the duress. This hypothesis disappears when duress is sought to be invoked as a defense in a homicide case.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Hall and Koontz , convictions for perjury and attempted robbery were reversed because the trial court failed to give [a duress instruction]. The instruction, of course, is proper unless the evidence is such that the trial court can decide, as a matter of law, that the defendant could not reasonably believe that the danger was real or impending... Even if [one] had reasonable grounds to believe that the danger was real, but, as a matter of law, could not reasonably believe that the danger was impending, then the instruction is not required. In this context, the meaning of impending is not merely temporal, i.e., about to take place, but includes whether there is, no matter the lapse of time, a reasonable opportunity to escape the compulsion without committing the crime ... An imminent danger is one which cannot be guarded against by calling for the protection of the law.”
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.