People v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 1963 · most notably People v. Glass (1910), 77 Cal. App. 2d 748 - People v. Agnew (1947)
29 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. Markham · People v. Shaber · People v. Lee · People v. Fowler · People v. Parsons
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word `bribe' signifies anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given, or accepted, with a corrupt intent to influence, unlawfully, the person to whom it is given, in his action, vote, or opinion, in any public or official capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Glass
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.