Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1959
8 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sale denotes the transfer of the property in a thing, from one to another, for a valuable consideration. This is its popular, as well as its legal, signification. There must be parties standing to each other in the relation of seller and buyer; their minds must assent to the same proposition; and money must be paid or promised. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.