People v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably State v. Hayes (1976), People v. Dailey (1982)
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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · SGRO v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Peschong , we stated that the affidavit might have indicated the nature of the information previously given by the informant and whether such information led to arrests or convictions or otherwise proved to be true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Baird
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.