State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably State v. Wilkerson (1978), State v. Hill (1984)
86 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Dombrowski v. Pfister · State v. Marshall Norman Hicks · State v. Foust · State v. Jarrette
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law extends its indulgence to a transport of passion justly excited and to acts done before reason has time to subdue it; the law does not indulge revenge or malice, no matter how great the injury or grave the insult which first gave it origin.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . Clearly the evidence did not justify a charge on involuntary manslaughter. Defendant makes no contention that the gun was discharged accidentally. On the contrary she testified, “I went in the back bedroom and I sat there on the bed and then I jumped right up and I run and grabbed the gun and went right in the room. I went through the bedrooms and in the living room. And that’s when I fired. But I didn’t want to kill him. ...” (Emphasis added.) By her own statement defendant intentionally discharged the gun under circumstances naturally dangerous to human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Redfern“The presence of such evidence is the determinative factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fleming
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.