Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2005
22 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 Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Terry v. State · Harding v. State · Burkes 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on a piece of paper. Appellant contends the trial court's failure to sua sponte instruct the jury on the definition of sudden heat constitutes reversible error. Appellant cannot complain of incomplete or omitted instructions when he has not tendered any instructions on that issue. Because appellant did not tender an instruction covering the definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State“Only when the record reveals clearly blatant violations of basic and elementary principles, and the harm or potential for harm could not be denied, will this Court review an issue not properly raised and preserved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. State“version of the facts presents a question of self-defense not sudden heat ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark 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.