Ex Parte Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2017
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3288
Relies on McMorris v. State · State v. Hemminger · State v. Simpson · Ex Parte Dickerson · Hattaway v. United States
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.
“(b) The time during the pendency of an indictment, information, or complaint shall not be computed in the period of limitation. (c) The term “during the pendency,” as used herein, means that period of time beginning with the day the indictment, information, or complaint is filed in a court of competent jurisdiction, and ending with the day such accusation is, by an order of a trial court having jurisdiction thereof, determined to be invalid for any reason.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bonner v. State · State v. Hall““AND THE GRAND JURORS AFORESAID do further present that on or about the 26th day of June, 1974, a complaint was duly filed in Lubbock County, Texas, against the said HAROLD WAYNE DICKERSON, charging him with the offense hereinabove charged in this indictment and that thereafter on the 12th day of February, 1976, the Grand Jury for the County of Lubbock, Texas, returned on indictment against the said HAROLD WAYNE DICKERSON charging him with the offense here-inabove charged in this indictment and thereafter on the 13th day of April, 1977, the indictment was held to be invalid by the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. State“competent jurisdiction” is susceptible of two meanings, including”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Trejo 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.