Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Thompson · Price v. State · Heichelbech v. State · Miles v. State · State v. Lombardo
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the law is to protect the public from the annoyances and deleterious ef-feets which may and do occur because of the presence of persons who are in an intoxicated condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · Street v. State“It is a Class B misdemeanor for a person to be in a public place or a place of public resort in a state of intoxication caused by the person's use of alcohol or a controlled substance[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Street v. State · Mance v. State“'The spirit of the public intoxication statute is to prevent people from becoming inebriated and then bothering and/or threatening the safety of other people in public places.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · Street 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.