Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 2010 Ark. App. 111 - Price v. State (2010), Rounsaville v. State (2009)
38 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 Byrum v. State · White v. State · Gillard v. State · Alexander v. State · Young 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n the count against Ma.B., the State failed to meet a prima facie case in that they've failed to show that Edward Rogers engaged in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with Ma.B. and that Ma.B. was less than 14 years of age at the time of the alleged offense. .... On the charge involving T.B., the State failed to make a prima facie case in that they failed to show that Edward Rogers engaged in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with T.B. and that she was less than 18 years of age at the time of the alleged offense. And that Mr. Rogers was ... [T.B.'s] guardian. .... I'm gonna make the next two motions because they are the same as the T.B. But the State has failed to make a prima facie case that Edward Rogers engaged in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with either Mi.B. or L.W., and that Mi.B. and L.W. were less than 18 years of age at the time of the alleged offense. And that Mr. Rogers was Mi.B.'s or L.W.'s guardian.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Friday v. State · Rogers v. State“in rape cases, we have held that there is sufficient evidence to support a conviction if the victim gives 'a full and detailed accounting of the defendant's actions.' White v. State , 367 Ark. 595 , 599, 242 S.W.3d 240 , 249 (2006). Uncorroborated testimony of a rape victim is sufficient evidence to support a conviction. See Gillard v. State , 366 Ark. 217 , 234 S.W.3d 310 (2006). Inconsistencies in the rape victim's testimony are matters of credibility that are left for the jury to resolve. See id. The jury may accept or reject testimony as it sees fit. See id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State“[t]his court views the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, and only evidence supporting the verdict will be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rounsaville 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.