Ward v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bottoson v. Florida · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · King v. Pennsylvania · Stockton v. Commonwealth · Fitzgerald v. Virginia
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
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1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conley v. Com.
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.