Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Williams v. State (1982), In Re Petition for Writ of Prohibition (1988)
45 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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And we here remark, that when the jury be asked if they have agreed on their verdict, and they respond that they have, and that their foreman shall say for them, and the foreman, speaking for the whole panel, find a proper verdict, and the same be recorded, the whole panel being called upon to hearken to it as the court hath recorded it, and no objection being made, either by any of the jury, or the counsel for the State or prisoner, then such proper verdict, as given through the foreman, is the verdict of the whole panel, and it is too late, after the record of it, under such circumstances, for any of them to alter or amend it; it is then too late to poll the panel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to ask the jury, when he polled them, “Whether they found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree?” To which question, when it was put to the jury, the foreman answered for the jury, in the words, “Guilty of murder in the first degree,” in an audible voice; and each of the remaining eleven jurors, when polled, responded, “Guilty,” without specifying the degree of murder in words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The verdict is the unanimous decision made by a jury and reported to the court. . . .’ Unanimity is indispensable to the sufficiency of the verdict. ...” Ford v. State, 12 Md. at 549 (emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McKay
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.