Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2011
9 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 59 Okla. Crim. 146 - Kennamer v. State · 94 Okla. Crim. 110 - Hathcox v. State · Green v. State · Cooper v. State · Luker 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is impossible upon such a subject to formulate a general rule infallibly applicable in all cases. Each case is tested by itself as a measure."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantrell v. State“[a)rguments beyond the seope of the evidence can only be intended to arouse the passions and prejudices of the jurors and are improper”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pryor 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.