Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Nunnery v. State (2011), Diomampo v. State (2008)
32 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Purkett v. Elem · Miller-El v. Dretke · Kaczmarek v. State · Williams 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the opponent of the peremptory challenge must make out a prima facie case of discrimination.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarty v. State · Morgan v. State“evidence of historical discrimination against minorities in jury selection by the district attorney's office.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarty v. State · Conner v. State“An implausible or fantastic justification by the State may, and probably will, be found to be pretext for intentional discrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarty v. State · Morgan 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.