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His service terminated on August 6, 1988, due to his death in the Westmoreland Hills neighborhood of [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]].<ref name="auto"/> Justice [[William J. Brennan Jr.]] wrote a memoriam for Judge Wright in the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1341383|jstor=1341383|title=In Memoriam: J. Skelly Wright|last1=Brennan|first1=William J.|last2=Wald|first2=Patricia M.|last3=Parker|first3=Richard|last4=Monroe|first4=Bill|journal=Harvard Law Review|year=1988|volume=102|issue=2|pages=361–374}}</ref>
Wright is recognized for exerting a major influence on the American law of landlord-tenant. Several of his decisions on the D.C. Circuit helped modernize landlord-tenant jurisprudence by incorporating consumer protection principles long accepted in [[contract law]].<ref>https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3651&context=gradschool_disstheses {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
The J. Skelly Wright Professorship at [[Yale Law School]] is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6188 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726215050/http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6188 |archive-date=2010-07-26 }}</ref>
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