People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2000 · most notably Connecticut v. Johnson (1983), State v. Truppi (1980)
16 federal appellate · 8 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.
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.
““... failure to object should not be made a basis for relief in these cases. General instructions of this kind may be part of a judge’s customary litany and not the subject of conference discussion with counsel before being given. Unless counsel has become conversant with the judge’s customary instruction, the instruction may be given before he has an opportunity to object. Once given, the damage may be irremediable because the judge must repeat the instruction to identify it and then caution the jury to disregard it. Many defense lawyers may regard ‘cure’ by a corrected instruction as no better and perhaps worse than the injury.””
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.