Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 59 Ill. 2d 352 - People v. DeMorrow (1974), Commonwealth v. Harris (1968)
56 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Mapp v. Ohio · Rochin v. People of California · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [I]t is well established that the consent may not be gained through stealth, deceit or misrepresentation, and that if such exists this is tantamount to implied coercion . . .. The seizure was gained through the use of deceit and misrepresentation. This vitiated the seizure just as effectively as if a search were involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . It is established beyond argument that such consent to be valid must be unequivocal, specific and voluntarily given without the presence of duress or coercion, actual or implied . . .””
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.