Ward v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 654 · 1983
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. Khoury (1990), United States v. Morehead (1992)
50 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 2313 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 659 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Sanders v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Bell v. United States
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ ‘the relevant inquiry is whether there existed more than one agreement to perform some illegal act or acts.’ ”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must demonstrate that the juror in question exhibited actual bias: That is, either an express admission of bias, or proof of specific facts showing such a close connection to the circumstances of the case that bias must be presumed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are free to look beyond the face of the indictment and examine the trial record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.