State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Soto (2012), State v. Timothy E. Dobbs (2020)
50 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · Berkemer v. McCarty · Colorado v. Connelly
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the length of questioning, general conditions or circumstances in which the statement was taken, whether any excessive physical or psychological pressure was used, and whether any inducements, threats, methods, or strategies were utilized in order to elicit a statement from the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“balanc[e] the characteristics of the suspect against the type of police tactics that were employed to obtain the suspect's statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“age, education, intelligence, physical or emotional condition, and prior experience with law enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.