Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2006
17 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 State Ex Rel. Giblin v. Sullivan · Cormark v. Coleman · Wilson v. Joughin · 175 So. 2d 203 - Paul's Drugs, Inc. v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. · State ex rel. Saunders v. Boyer
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] disclaimer of intent to be contemptuous is not sufficient to deprive the court of the power to punish contempt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Determination of the facts, and inferences to be drawn therefrom, is necessarily left to the decision of the trial judge, and his conclusions as to the acts done, and as to their contemptuous character or effect, will not be lightly disturbed by this court on habeas corpus. Nor will the findings of the judge ordinarily be set aside when reasonably supported by the facts appearing of record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forbes v. State“State ex rel. Giblin v. Sullivan, 157 Fla. 496 , 26 So.2d 509 , 516 (1946). Moreover,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forbes 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.