Wright v. Georgia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• a person cannot be punished for failing to obey the command of a police officer if that command is itself violative of the Constitution

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Cited by

148 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 15,427×
• Douglas v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 1,939×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• City of Chicago v. Morales
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 1,379×
• Henry v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 1,121×
• United States v. Guest
  Supreme Court· 1966-04-04· cited 721×
• Walker v. City of Birmingham
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 621×
• Cameron v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 595×
• Allee v. Medrano
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-20· cited 501×
• Palmore v. Sidoti
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-25· cited 491×
• Brown v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1966-02-23· cited 466×
• Palmer v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1971-10-12· cited 363×
• Honorable Ronald v. Dellums v. James M. Powell, Chief, United States Capitol Police, Jerry v. Wilson, Chief, Metropolitan Police Department
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-11-14· cited 335×
• Bell v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 326×
• Ashton v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1966-05-16· cited 251×
• People v. Curtis
  California Supreme Court· 1969-02-13· cited 227×
• Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokar
  Eleventh Circuit· 2018-03-13· cited 218×
• James Johnson, Jr. v. D. Morel
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-07-05· cited 212×
• Dyson v. Stein
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-23· cited 196×
• In Re Cox
  California Supreme Court· 1970-10-01· cited 173×

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 2,614×
• Stromberg v. California
  Supreme Court· 1931-05-18· cited 1,418×
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• Winters v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1948-05-03· cited 1,240×
• Terminiello v. Chicago
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-13· cited 1,230×
• United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-01· cited 902×
• Lambert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1958-01-27· cited 895×
• Cole v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 757×
• Staub v. City of Baxley
  Supreme Court· 1958-01-13· cited 508×
• Garner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1961-12-11· cited 486×
• Buchanan v. Warley
  Supreme Court· 1916-04-11· cited 462×
• Davis v. Wechsler
  Supreme Court· 1923-10-22· cited 188×
• Corbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-02-15· cited 44×
• Taylor v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 43×
• Boswell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-11-05· cited 42×
• Eaves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-07-18· cited 40×
• Teague v. Keith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-04-10· cited 33×
• Hughes v. State Board of Medical Examiners
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-05-13· cited 27×
• Newman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-05-05· cited 25×

Other cases named Wright v. Georgia

6 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Wright v. Georgia
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1864-11-15· cited 19×
• Wright v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25
• Wright v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-10-14
• Wright v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 2004-01-12
• Wright v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 2004-01-12
• Wright v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 2006-01-09