Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1931
13 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 Moon v. State · State v. Mead
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assault and battery, which is simply a misdemeanor, is not included in-any of the degrees of homicide. Tlie misdemeanor is merged in the felony. The merger of the misdemeanor in the felony is as complete in the case of an assault and battery .with intent to commit murder as where the murder is committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Brown
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.