Ward v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1979
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ground of the objection was not stated at all, and, considering the circumstances, the point now urged was not so obvious as to probably occur to the judge’s mind on the tender of a general objection. The plaintiff in error is therefore not entitled to insist on the ground here taken.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rivard v. Rivard
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.