State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1997
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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
Applies 27 U.S.C. § 122 (Webb-Kenyon Act)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · State of Missouri v. State of Illinois · Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co. · Sanitary District of Chicago v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'Entrapment,’ within the rule recognizing it as a defense, as discussed supra § 45(1), is shown where it appears that officers of the law or their agents incited, induced, instigated, or lured accused into committing an offense which he otherwise would not have committed and had no intention of committing. Stated otherwise, entrapment is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion, or fraud of the officer. Entrapment occurs only when the criminal conduct is the product of the ‘creative activity’ of law enforcement officials, that is, only where the criminal design originates in the mind of the police officer and not with accused, * *”
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.