Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2016
19 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 Esquivel v. State · McCarter v. State · Beshears v. State · Rockwood v. State · Jones v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Except as provided in Subsections (b) and (c) of this section, this Act applies only to offenses committed on or after its effective date, and a criminal action for an offense committed before this Act’s effective date is governed by the law existing before the effective date, which law is continued in effect for this purpose, as if this Act were not in force. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed on or after the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs on or after the effective date. “(c) In a criminal action pending on or commenced on or after the effective date of this Act, for an offense committed before the effective date, the defendant, if adjudged guilty, shall be assessed punishment under this Act if he so elects by written motion filed with the trial court before the sentencing hearing begins.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · Ex parte Spicer““It appears clear that under the ‘Saving Provisions’ of the new Penal Code a defendant convicted of a former Penal Code offense in a trial commencing after January 1, 1974, will be punished under the new Penal Code if the defendant so elects in writing as provided by Section 6(c) of the ‘Saving Provisions.’ Since a defendant, under the circumstances discussed, remains convicted of the old Penal Code offense despite his election to be punished under the new Penal Code, Jefferson v. State, 519 S.W.2d 649 , it is obvious the Legislature merely intended to allow him to substitute, at his option, the new Penal Code penalty provisions for the same offense or ‘conduct’ regardless of any variance in the elements between the offense in the old Penal Code and its equivalent counterpart in the new Penal Code without the necessity of additional proof to show that the defendant, having been found guilty of an old Code offense, is also guilty of the new Code offense or ‘conduct’ which may require in and of itself proof of additional elements. As we view it, the Legislature merely intended to give to the defendant upon conviction for an old Code offense a chance to opt for the range of penalties in the new Penal Code, which in many cases included a lower range of penalties.” Id. at 864 and 865 (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Spicer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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