Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1957 · most notably Crawford v. State (1895), Parker v. Newman (1917)
57 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 Root v. Stuyvesant · Dave v. State · State v. Williams · Hudson v. Daily
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The books abound in hair-breadth distinctions; but we apprehend the true rule to be, that if the names may be sounded alike, without doing violence to the power of the letters found in the variant orthography, then the variance is immaterial”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Kuhnhausen
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.