Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Zuliani v. State (2003), Guidry v. State (1999)
33 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 Keefe v. State of Arizona · Ramos v. State · Tezeno v. State · Preston v. Commonwealth · Cunningham 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has consistently held that there must be a showing in the record that the declarant was excited or in the grip of a shocking event so as to render the statement a spontaneous utterance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs 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.