Ward v. Priest’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Cox v. Daniels (2008), Rose v. Martin (2016)
30 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 McKenzie v. Burris · Westbrook v. McDonald · Foster v. Jefferson County Quorum Court · Little Rock v. North Little Rock · Harris v. City of Little Rock
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sufficiency of all state-wide petitions shall be decided in the first instance by the Secretary of State, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the State, which shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all such causes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Zook v. Martin
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.