State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2020
19 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 Strobel v. Strobel · State v. Lewis · In Re TE · State v. JS · State v. Tyson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o be guilty as an accessory one must share the criminal intent and community of unlawful purpose with the perpetrator of the crime .... In accordance with our murder statute, a conviction of murder as an accessory thus requires, inter alia, that the accessory shared the perpetrator's intent to cause the death of another person .... General Statutes § 53a-54a (a). A person acts intentionally with respect to a result ... described by a statute defining an offense when his conscious objective is to cause such result .... General Statutes § 53a-3 (11).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his state ... long ago adopted the rule that there is no practical significance in being labeled an accessory or a principal for the purpose of determining criminal responsibility.... Under the modern approach, a person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when he is an accomplice of the other person in the commission of the crime.... [T]here is no such crime as being an accessory .... The accessory statute merely provides alternate means by which a substantive crime may be committed.”
1 later decision 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.