Ard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1985
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 50 Ala. App. 465 - McNair v. State · 50 Ala. App. 471 - Brown v. State · Malone v. State · 342 So. 2d 1343 - O'TINGER v. State · Smith 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury in effect wore blinders in fixing punishment. The jury was not allowed to hear evidence of a defendant's prior criminal acts ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryson 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.