People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably 72 Cal. App. 3d 714 - People v. Ewing (1977), 12 Cal. 4th 979 - People v. Wells (1996)
33 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 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland · 12 Cal. 3d 641 - People v. Hitch · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · 1 Cal. 3d 379 - People v. Mosher
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant was charged with personally injuring the child and not with willfully permitting its injury by another. The Peabody [requirement] for an instruction on criminal negligence is inappropriate where the evidence points to direct infliction of injury by the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reads out of the statute the element which embodies criminal negligence, the requirement that the culpable conduct occur in circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Vargas
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.