Ward v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.2d 877 · 1961
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1991 · most notably United States v. Lane (1986), Baker v. United States (1968)
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Schaffer v. United States · McElroy v. United States · Ingram v. United States · United States v. Welsh
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘[Wjhere multiple defendants are charged with offenses in no way connected, and are tried together, they are prejudiced by that very fact, and the trial judge has no discretion to deny relief.’ Ingram v. United States, 4 Cir., 1959, 272 F.2d 567 , 570. See also Schaffer v. United States, 1960, 362 U.S. 511 , 80 S.Ct. 945 , 4 L.Ed.2d 921 ; McElroy v. United States, 1896, 164 U.S. 76 , 17 S.Ct. 31 , 41 L.Ed. 355 ; United States v. Welsh, D.C.1953, 15 F.R.D. 189 , 190.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(b) Joinder of Defendants. Two or more defendants may be charged in the same indictment or information if they are alleged to have participated in the same act-or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. Such defendants may be charged in one or more counts together or separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in each count.””
1 later decision 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.