People v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1956 · most notably People v. Suesser (1904), People v. Willard (1907)
12 federal appellate · 22 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. Wells · People v. Cronin · People v. McNulty · People v. Scoggins · People v. Coffman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There seems a disposition on the part of counsel for defendants in all criminal cases since the decision in People v. Wells, 100 Cal. 459 , 34 Pac. 1078 , to count upon the alleged misconduct of the prosecution as cause for reversal. That was an extreme case, in which this court was of opinion the assistant district attorney had willfully and persistently offered incompetent evidence to the prejudice of defendant, well knowing its inadmissibility. The animus of the prosecution there was so apparent, and its effect so pronounced, that the court deemed it but just to stamp with the seal of its disapprobation, not only for that case, but as a warning against like conduct in other cases, a course of proceeding militating against justice and the fair and orderly conduct which should characterize judicial proceedings in criminal cases. It is only in extreme cases, of which this is not one, that the remedy there administered applies. The attack in that case was not upon error by the prosecution, but upon willful error persisted In for an illegitimate purpose, followed by injustice to the prisoner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.