State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Troupe (1995), Stradford v. State (1990)
3 federal appellate · 37 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Molinaro v. New Jersey · United States v. Puzzanghera · State v. Carter · Wayne v. Wyrick
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' Those who seek the protection of this legal system must, however, be willing to abide by its rules and decisions. ... She may not selectively abide by the decisions of the courts.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“places himself in a position to speculate on the chances of reversal, meanwhile keeping out of the reach of justice, and prepared to render the judgment of reversal nugatory or not, at his option.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Troupe“almost certain prejudice to the state in the event of a remand for a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Troupe
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.