State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2015
14 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 Strickland v. Washington · Benner v. Ohio · State v. Dunn · Scharf v. BMG Corp. · State v. Templin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court may only find abuse `if it can be said that no reasonable [person] would take the view adopted by the trial court.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““[t]he actions or remarks of [the prosecutor] call to the attention of the jury a matter it would not be justified in considering in determining its verdict and, if so, under the circumstances of the particular case, whether the error is substantial and prejudicial such that there is a reasonable likelihood that, in its absence, there would have been a more favorable result.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An abuse of discretion may be manifest if the actions of the judge in sentencing were inherently unfair or if the judge imposed a clearly excessive sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valdez
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.