Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2006
1 federal appellate · 20 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 434 So. 2d 883 - Florida Bar · State v. Plachta · 109 Wash. 2d 336 - State v. Black · Reckner v. Foremost Insurance Co. · 483 So. 2d 1383 - Kruse 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.
“[c]hild abuse syndrome is an area sufficiently developed to permit an expert to testify that the symptoms observed in the evaluated child are consistent with those displayed by victims of child abuse.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Toro v. State · State v. Harris“is not so understandable that people know as much about it as a qualified expert with the requisite skill and exposure to numerous studies in the field.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sexual behavior (suggestions of sexual activities, e.g., sexual play with toys); behavioral reactions (extreme passiveness or aggressiveness, changes in eating, underachievement); and emotional reactions (sleep disturbances, physical and depressive reactions).”
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.