Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1990
22 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 Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner · Your Host, Inc. v. Commissioner · Williams v. State · Simmons v. State · Klueppel 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant overlooks the well-established proposition that the recent unexplained possession of all or any part of the items taken in a burglary is sufficient to sustain a conviction for burglary. [Citations omitted] The proof in the instant case that the appellant was in possession the very next day of the credit cards taken in burglaries was sufficient to show he was the perpetrator of the extraneous offenses and justified the admission of evidence of the burglaries on that score.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCann 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.