State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2011
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 State v. Moore · Littell v. Bi-State Transit Development Agency · State v. Terry · State v. Nichelson · State v. Hammonds
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.
““INSTRUCTION NO. 5 If you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that on or about March 1, 1980, in the County of Mississippi, State of Missouri, the defendant caused the death of Ricky Alan Brooks by shooting him, and Second, that the defendant intended to cause serious bodily harm to Ricky Alan Brooks, and Third, that the defendant did not do so in anger suddenly provoked by the unexpected acts or conduct of Ricky Alan Brooks, then you will find the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. However, if you do not find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt each and all of these propositions, you must find the defendant not guilty of that offense. If you do find the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree you will fix his punishment at imprisonment by the Department of Corrections for a term fixed by you, but not less than ten years nor more than life imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mannon
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.