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Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Montana v. Egelhoff · Fluor Corp. v. United States · Terry v. State · Bobbitt v. State · Pritchard v. State

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a substantial blatant violation of basic principles”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[the instruction[ ] inform{s] the jurors that if they conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty, they should return a verdict of guilty. The instruction [is] hardly offensive to any of our fundamental precepts of criminal justice; indeed, we have approved of [such an instruction] in several previous cases.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[iJn all criminal cases whatsoever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.”
    2 later decisions 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.