State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Ford (1999), In Re Goodwin (2002)
79 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 Harris v. McRae · 114 Wash. 2d 802 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Cook · United States v. Weston · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · State v. Sanwick
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best evidence of a prior conviction is a certified copy of the judgment.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“because it is `inconsistent with the principles underlying our system of justice to sentence a person on the basis of crimes that the State either could not or chose not to prove.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Adolph · In Re Cadwallader“illegal or erroneous sentences may be challenged for the first time on appeal.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Hunter
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.