Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2016
20 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Mazurie · Robelen Piano Company v. Di Fonzo · United States v. Freeman · State Highway Department v. Buzzuto
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 847. Theft, extortion; claim of right as an affirmative defense. “(a) In any prosecution for theft or extortion it is an affirmative defense that the property was appropriated by the actor under a claim of right, made in good faith, to do substantially what he did in the manner in which it was done.” * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bilinski v. State““§ 841. Theft * * * “A person is guilty of theft when he takes, exercises control over or obtains property of another person intending to deprive him of it or appropriate it. Theft includes the acts described in §§ 842 through 846 of this title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bilinski v. State“A Trial Judge has a duty 'to avoid any language or any conduct which would lead the jury to suspect that the judge is favorable to one party to the trial.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Childress v. State
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.