Ward v. Yoder’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Thornberg v. State Ex Rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Division (1996), Goddard v. Colonel Bozeman's Restaurant (1996)
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 Welsh v. Kuntz · United States v. Gage · Lindblom v. Round Valley Water Co. · Wyoming Hereford Ranch v. Hammond Packing Co. · Van Tassel Real Estate & Livestock Co. v. City of Cheyenne
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The trial court was not in a strait jacket which required it to accept without question any of the testimony as fact. It was the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and was entitled to interpret the evidence. This included not only an evaluation of what was said by the witnesses who appeared in person before the court but also an analy sis of what had taken place at the previous hearings.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In State ex rel. Murane v. Jack, 52 Wyo. 173 , 70 P.2d 888 , 71 P.2d 917 , 112 A.L.R. 161 , we gave effect to the rule that where the legislature has constitutional power to enact a given law and properly frames an Act it is the duty of the court to construe it for proper effectuation without adding to or eliding from the words recited."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘A failure to assert a fact, when it would have been natural to assert it, amounts in effect to an assertion of the non-existence of the fact. * * * “ * * * * Omissions to assert anything, or to speak with such detail or positiveness, when formerly narrating, on the stand or elsewhere, the matter now dealt with [is an example of such failure].’ 3 Wig-more, Evidence, 3d ed., § 1042.” (Emphasis and brackets in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aguilar 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.