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People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
7
states following
January 2024
most recently cited

1 district · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2024

1 district · 21 state decisions

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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 Katz v. United States · Mincey v. Arizona · 97 Wash. 2d 562 - State v. Loewen · 98 Wis. 2d 345 - State v. Prober · People v. Raffaelli

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

  1. “The medical emergency exception will support a warrantless search of a person’s purse or wallet when the person is found in an unconscious or semi-conscious condition and the purpose of the search is to discover evidence of identity and other information that might enhance the prospect of administering appropriate medical assistance to the person.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 65 Ark. App. 232 - Evans v. State · People v. Smith
  2. “the officer was not confronted with a situation in which there was no other reasonable alternative other than to search the defendant's purse for the information necessary for a completed report”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Evans
  3. “`[t]he need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise illegal absent an exigency or emergency.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Salt Lake City v. Davidson

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.