Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Fleming v. State (1977), State v. Jackson (2010)
3 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 Proctor v. State · Wilson v. State · Woods v. State · Dodd v. State · Davis v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inflicts an unlawful injury, such injury is to be accounted as the efficient, proximate cause of the death, whenever it shall be made to appear ... that [ ] the injury directly and materially contributed to the happening of a subsequent accruing immediate cause of the death....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bishop v. Kelso“the jury was authorized to find that this act either materially contributed to the death ... or materially accelerated it”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.