People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
3
states following
September 2012
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Frye v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · 53 Cal. 3d 771 - People v. Cooper · 53 Cal. 3d 618 - People v. Cox
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our trial courts [should] no longer need to expend valuable time and resources on repetitive Kelly [ ] hearings directed to this issue of the admissibility of DNA evidence derived from the PCR method, as the trial court [did] in this case, now that the well-reasoned Morganti decision has become final....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]ase-by-case adjudication as to the `general acceptance' prong of the Kelly test is not required once the scientific technique in question has been endorsed in a published appellate opinion....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.