Ward v. Village of Monroeville’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
346 federal appellate · 93 district · 561 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,472 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. (1982), Arnett v. Kennedy (1974)
346 federal appellate · 93 district · 561 state decisions — followed in 46 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.
Relationships
Relies on Tumey v. State of Ohio · Raley v. Ohio · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Dugan v. Ohio
Cited together with Tumey v. State of Ohio · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Gibson v. Berryhill · Withrow v. Larkin · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie
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 1,472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“direct, personal, substantial pecuniary interest”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]etitioner [was] entitled to a neutral and detached judge in the first instance.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“general overall supervision of village affairs”
5 later decisions 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.