328 So. 2d 260 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1999
3 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Swart v. Kimball · Higginbotham v. State · Murphy v. Extraordinary Special & Trial Term of the Supreme Court · Hewitt v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all criminal prosecutions the accused shall... have a right to have ... a speedy and public trial by impartial jury in the county where the crime was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It was not made to appear to the trial court, and we are in no way apprised, how many of the 600 jurors in said county were disqualified from acting as jurors in the case at bar. The fact that it might have been difficult or would have consumed considerable time to have procured a qualified jury to have tried the defendant is not sufficient to warrant a change of venue, against the consent of defendant.... [S]uch an important right must not be lightly treated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to make it to clearly appear that it is practically impossible to obtain an impartial jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.