State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1945
9 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 People v. Cronin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tender solicitude on the part of the government for the rights of citizens charged with crime is commendable; but the refinements and technicalities of the common law, which, under the circumstances and conditions of society two hundred years ago, were necessary for the protection of the citizen charged with crime, under the changing conditions of society are no longer necessary, and instead of insuring the proper results, more often tend to defeat the ends of justice and prevent the merited punishment of crime; and the blind adherence by the courts to these old and now useless rules of construction has largely, and not without reason, impressed the minds of the common people with the idea that the administration of criminal law is a farce.””
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.