In re Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1967 · most notably State v. Severns (1959), Foster v. City of Augusta (1953)
25 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears that this evidence was offered for another and different purpose, but the object and manner of its presentation are immaterial. It was sufficient to call the attention of the court to the claim that the defendant was inlsane and incapable of making proper answer to the charge pending against him. This was a matter of too much gravity to be ignored because of any supposed irregularity in the form of its presentation. It was the duty of the magistrate to take notice of this claim and determine the defendant’s mental condition before proceeding further with the examination.” (p. 412.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Detar““Where upon the trial of a person charged with a crime it is claimed that he is then unable to make answer and defense thereto in a rational manner, because of mental incapacity which has arisen since the alleged commission of the offense, it is the duty of the court where such trial is pending to make inquiry concerning such disability, and, if found to exist, to stop further proceedings in the trial until such disability has been'removed. Failure in this respect, whereby an insane person is forced into trial, will render all subsequent proceedings void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ossweiler““When the attention of a court is called to the fact that the defendant about to be arraigned before it is unable because of mental disability to make proper defense to the accusation against him, it is doubtless the duty of the court to take notice of the suggestion and to make such inquiry concerning it as will fully protect the rights of the accused.” (In re Wright, 74 Kan. 406, 412 , 86 Pac. 460 , 89 Pac. 678 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Detar
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.