Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2011
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Rummel v. Estelle · Oyler v. Boles · Snowden v. Hughes · Cannon v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement is not itself a federal constitutional violation” so long as “the selection was [not] deliberately based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Albury 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.