Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ake v. Oklahoma · Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · Arizona v. California · Calderon v. Thompson · 38 Cal. 4th 72 - People v. Jurado
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, we are bound to follow prior case law under the doctrine of stare decisis, a policy designed to lend predictability and stability to the law. Ward v. State , 2015 Ark 62 , at 5, 455 S.W.3d at 833 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. Hutchinson
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.