Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2018
21 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 Zickefoose v. State · Commonwealth v. Kennedy · Gervin v. State · People v. La Fontaine · Hutchinson 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The more serious the crime attempted or the greater the menace to the social security from similar efforts on the part of the defendant or others, the further back in the series of acts leading up to the consummated crime should the criminal law reach in holding the defendant guilty for attempt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“child molesting is a sufficiently serious crime to justify drawing a fairly early line to identify and sanction behavior as an attempt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ward asked D.D. if he would like Ward to perform fellatio on him. 2 Ward made three such requests. In finding that Ward's solicitation of D.D. was a substantial step toward commission of the offense of child molesting, the Court noted that Ward's solicitation was in a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arave · Shahan 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.