Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2018
20 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 2 Tenn. Crim. App. 552 - Yearwood v. State · Johnson v. State · Caruso v. State · Spencer v. State · Busler 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true test of which is a lesser and which is a greater crime is whether the elements of the former are completely contained within the latter, so that to prove the greater the State must first prove the elements of the lesser.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vance · Howard v. State““Trespass is a wrong to another’s possession or any wrongful dealing, invito domino, with the property of another, being, in larceny, the unlawful taking of personal property from the possession of another without his consent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spiller“it would be utterly impossible to make out a case of petit larceny of merchandise from a retail mercantile establishment without establishing shoplifting. 549 S.W.2d at 685 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State
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.