State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2026
16 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 State v. Caouette · State v. Mazerolle · Phillips v. Eastern Maine Medical Center · State v. Hanscome · State v. Googins
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that the witness has been convicted of a specific crime is admissible but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment for one year or more under the law under which the witness was convicted, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment. In either case admissibility shall depend upon a determination by the court that the probative value of this evidence upon witness credibility outweighs any unfair prejudice to a criminal defendant or to any civil party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gray“When a jury’s impartiality is questioned, the trial court should individually interview the jurors to ascertain whether each can remain impartial. The court’s determina tion of whether a juror can remain impartial is entitled to substantial deference because of the trial court’s ability to observe and to assess the juror’s credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mair“[t]he similarity of the prior conviction [to] the crime charged substantially increases the potential for misuse of the evidence by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burton
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.