Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Wooley v. State (1999), Stephenson v. State (2001)
3 federal appellate · 84 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Hernandez v. New York · Powers v. Ohio
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person not standing in the relation of parent, child, or spouse to another person who has committed a crime or is a fugitive from justice who, with intent to hinder the apprehension or punishment of the other person, harbors, conceals, or otherwise assists the person commits assisting a criminal, a Class A misdemeanor. However, the offense is: (1) a Class D felony if the person assisted has committed a Class B, Class C, or Class D felony....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. State · Hauk v. State“Had defendant seriously believed that the amendment of the charges prejudiced him in any way, he should have requested a continuance to further evaluate and prepare his case in light of the amendments. Having failed to request a continuance after the court granted the motion to amend, defendant has waived this issue on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fuller v. State · Gibbs v. State“(1) the juror is a member of a cognizable racial group; (2) [the challenging party] has exercised peremptory challenges to remove that group's members from the jury; and (8) the facts and cireumstances of this case raise an inference that the exclusion was based on race.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Forrest v. State · McBride v. State
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.