37 Md. App. 34 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2018
8 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Davidson v. Miller · Administrator, Motor Vehicle Administration v. Vogt · Doe v. Commander, Wheaton Police Department
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Rule of Lenity and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unconstitutional as applied to the appellant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.