12 Utah 2d 310 - Ward v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 167 W. Va. 830 - State v. Beck (1981), State v. Pinder (2005)
2 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 34 Cal. 2d 300 - In Re Swain · People v. Jones · In Re McCoy · 10 Cal. 2d 1 - In Re Mooney
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to justify the [post-conviction] release of a convicted person ... the evidence of his innocence must be stronger than would be necessary in the first instance in support of a motion for a new trial, for special writs are applied for after the defendant's conviction has been affirmed or denied on appeal, and in a sense they invade the usual rules for the finality of judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Julian v. State
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.