Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wright (2008), Commonwealth v. Taylor (2001)
37 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Mincey v. Arizona · Minnesota v. Olson · Paulussen v. Herion
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury,” Commonwealth v. Wright, 560 Pa. 34 , 742 A.2d 661, 666 (1999) (Castille, J., concurring and dissenting),”
1 later decision 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.