State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Shaw (1982), State v. Sidebottom (1988)
52 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 Namet v. United States · State v. Degraffenreid · State v. Wynne · United States v. Hiss · State v. Spica
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would seem obvious that this problem does not lend itself to solution by any hard and fast rule. It is a matter that requires the exercise of sound judgment giving due consideration to the facts and circumstances prevailing at the time the question arises. What we can be certain of, however, is that one end of the spectrum has been reached .... (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berry“the burden is upon the respondent-state to show this evidence was harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller
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.