Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Seeney v. State · Osburn v. State · Sheldon 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3. The sentencing standards are considered voluntary and nonbinding; thus, no party to a criminal case has any legal or constitutional right to appeal to any court a statutorily authorized sentence which does not conform to the sentencing standards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Siple v. State · Mayes v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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