Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 16 district · 310 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 355 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Alphas (1999), Commonwealth v. Randolph (2002)
27 federal appellate · 16 district · 310 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 Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman · Commonwealth v. Toney
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 355 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was an error in the course of the trial (by defense counsel, the prosecutor, or the judge)” and (2) the”
9 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.