Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Garcia v. State (1981), Cunningham v. State (1972)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · McGautha v. California · United States v. Sutherland
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of argument is to assist the jury in properly analyzing the evidence. The prosecutor cannot use closing argument to get evidence before the jury which is outside the record and prejudicial to the accused. Lockabaugh v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 613 , 352 S.W.2d 279 ; Clark v. State, supra; however, in light of the Court’s ruling and instruction to the jury as well as the prosecutor’s clarifying remark we perceive no reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dears v. State““ . . .we hold that each case must be considered on its own facts, and that convictions based on eyewitness identification at trial following a pretrial identification by photograph will be set aside on that ground only if the photographic identification procedure was so imper-missibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidenti f ication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mosley 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.