Idaho v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
647 federal appellate · 79 district · 2,134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,604 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Maryland v. Craig (1990)
647 federal appellate · 79 district · 2,134 state decisions — followed in 48 states
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 Illinois v. Gates · Bruton v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Jones v. United States
Cited together with Ohio v. Roberts · White v. Illinois · Lee v. Illinois · Crawford v. Washington · California v. Green
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 3,604 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be admissible under the Confrontation Clause, hearsay evidence used to convict a defendant must possess indicia of reliability by virtue of its inherent trustworthiness, not by reference to other evidence at trial.”
128 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“operates in two separate ways to restrict the range of admissible hearsay.”
101 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the declarant's truthfulness is so clear from the surrounding circumstances that the test of cross-examination would be of marginal utility, then the hearsay rule does not bar admission of the statement at trial.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.