Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Mitchell v. State (1993), Ward v. Page (1970)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Green v. United States · 60 Cal. 2d 482 - People v. Henderson · United States ex rel. Hetenyi v. Wilkins · Patton v. State of North Carolina · 86 Okla. Crim. 21 - Stokes 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for new trial upon the ground of newly discovered evidence is not sufficient where it only tends to discredit or impeach the witness for the State and especially where it would not change the result of the trial. “The granting of a new trial on the ground of newly discovered testimony is a matter largely within the trial court’s discretion and is not to be exercised except where there is reasonable probability that, if such evidence had been introduced, different results would have been reached.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. State · Jones v. State“'“You are instructed that evidence has been offered to show flight by the defendant shortly after the commission of the crime alleged against him in the information. If you find from the evidence, that defendant did at some time flee from the place of the alleged burglary and that such flight was induced by his apprehension of being charged with a public offense by reason thereof, this is a circumstance to be considered by you in connection with all the other evidence to aid you in determining the question of the guilt or innocence of the defendant.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. State · Pyles v. State““A motion for new trial upon the ground of newly discovered evidence is not sufficient where it only tends to discredit or impeach the witness for the State and especially where it would not change the result of the trial.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Herandy v. State · Maxey 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.