Sword v. Sword’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
43
cited by 43 later decisions
12
states following
July 2001
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably State v. Kilbane (1980), Jolly v. Wright (1980)
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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.