Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International (1988), 52 Md. App. 440 - Rojas v. State (1982)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Hines v. Davidowitz · Jones v. Rath Packing Co. · City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal, Inc. · Leonor Alberti Decanas and Miguel Canas,s, v. Anthony G. Bica and Juan Silva. · Kelly v. State of Washington Foss Co
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof.. .shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
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.