Ward v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2025
11 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 State ex rel. City of Milwaukee v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. · City of Madison v. Southern Wisconsin Railway Co. · State ex rel. Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railway Co. v. Common Council of Tomahawk · Second National Bank of Richmond v. Smith · Woodbury v. Shackleford
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it must not be supposed that the legislature intended, by the later statute, to repeal the prior one, unless the last statute is so broad in its terms and so clear and explicit in its words as to show that it was intended to cover the whole subject and therefore displace the prior statute.”
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.