Wright v. Wynn’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 792 So. 2d 392 - Ex Parte Cranman (2000), Wood v. Kesler (2003)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Barnes v. Dale · 413 So. 2d 391 - DeStafney v. University of Alabama · L.S.B. v. Howard
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those acts as to which there is no hard and fast rule as to the course of conduct that one must or must not take and those acts requiring exercise in judgment and choice and involving what is just and proper under the circumstances.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state officer or employee is not protected under the doctrine of discretionary function immunity if he acts willfully, maliciously, fraudulently, or in bad faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`shut up and get [his] ass back in the house,'”
1 later decision 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.