State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2009
15 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 Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Harris · State v. Bisaccia · State v. Petillo
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e take this to have been the holding in State v. Ratushny . " Ibid. We explained that the "underlying reason for the requirement that there be an adequate description of the premises in a search warrant is to prevent the police officer from entering property which he has no authority to invade.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile a search warrant must describe the premises to be searched with reasonable accuracy, pin-point precision is not demanded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the affidavit did state that the intended apartment was the one that was in fact occupied by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.