People v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably People v. Mendoza (1997), People v. Brenner (1992)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · 32 Cal. 3d 307 - People v. Wickersham · 14 Cal. 3d 857 - People v. Daniels · 96 Cal. App. 3d 353 - People v. Frederick G. · People v. Brigham
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have more than a plain meaning, as do all words. These words also carry with them an inherent baggage of connotation which plainly suggests to the auditor, “You are in trouble for testifying so do not let it happen again or things will only get worse.” The jury could interpret defendant’s remarks to [the witness] as a warning or threat not to testify in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spainhower“You punk mother fucker, we'll get you, you've got kids.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Pettie
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.