Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably The People v. Scalisi (1926), Turner v. Commonwealth (1921)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was therefore improper for the court to omit from the instructions the qualification that appellant had the right to fire upon the deceased, or any other member of the party, if he believed, from all the circumstances as they reasonably appeared to him, that the deceased or any member of the party was about to again forcibly enter his house, or to fire into it. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The making an attack upon a dwelling, and especially at night, the law regards as equivalent to an assault upon a man’s person,.for a man’s house is his castle. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.