Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . In the 1967 amendment, however, the caption gave no notice of any special penalties for the acts made unlawful by the amendment nor that the former uniform penalty was being materially restricted. . . . The caption to the 1969 amendment states that penalties will be ‘provided’ in five places and ‘increased’ in one. Fair warning was given that penalties were to be included in the amendatory act and that they would very the former uniform penalty of the 1959 act.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stein v. State · Harvey v. State

2. ““Appellant contends that the indictment charges him with ‘sale’ of a dangerous drug and the amendatory act in Section 3(a) only makes ‘delivery’ of a dangerous drug illegal. Section 2(b) defines the term ‘delivery’ to mean ‘sale, dispensing, giving away, or supplying in any other manner.’ The statute is not vague and an indictment charging sale of a dangerous drug puts a person on notice of the crime for which he is charged. This contention is without merit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reeves v. State