People v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2015
9 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 Davis v. United States · Wright v. United States · People v. District Court for County of Jefferson · People v. Urso · People v. King
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[slome competent lay evidence of sanity may suffice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“consisted of two eyewitnesses who testified that Ware was angry and upset[,] ... the pathologist who examined the body of the victim,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Eastwood“the lay testimony stressed the defendant's calmness, and how he appeared to make rational conversation and choices,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Eastwood
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.