Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Williams v. State (1997), Green v. State (1997)
29 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 Strickland v. Washington · Marino v. United States · Buchanan v. Kentucky · Thompson v. Oklahoma · King v. Fidelity National Bank of Baton Rouge
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to prove that an accused acted with a premeditated and deliberated purpose the State must prove: (1) that the accused had the conscious object to cause the death of another; (2) that the accused formed the intention of causing the death before acting; and (3) that the accused weighed in his mind the consequences of a course of | f,conduct, as distinguished from acting suddenly on impulse without the exercise of reasoning power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thornton v. State
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.