Wright v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 980 · 1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2001
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Freed · United States v. Balint · United States v. Tisnado · United States v. Gonzalez-Perez
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While intent in the traditional common law sense of a ‘guilty mind’ is not a constitutional requisite under a [possession of marijuana statute], due process demands that the state show a specific intent to possess the prohibited substance, that is, that the act was purposely, not accidently done.” (p. 981)”
2 later decisions 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.