Roland Wayne Wright v. Walter E. Craven, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
461 F.2d 1109 · 1972
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Adams v. Rs Peterson Osci (1992), United States v. Segal (1977)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 325 F. Supp. 1253 - Wright v. Craven · Edison R. Womack v. Walter E. Craven, Warden
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not be accepted unless the defendant understands the consequences of the admission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under California law an admission by a defendant of prior felony convictions, where those convictions are to be used to enhance his sentence on the present offense, is the 'functional equivalent' of a plea of guilty to a separate charge, and, therefore, it may not be accepted unless the defendant understands the consequences of the admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.