Ford v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 67 Ill. App. 3d 519 - Ullmen v. Department of Registration & Education (1978), 514 So. 2d 77 - Silverman v. Millner (1987)
28 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 Courtney v. Central Trust Co. · Fain v. Cartwright · Barber 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * we have not hesitated to consistently declare that, when a trial judge perceives that in consequence of inadvertence of counsel, or other cause, the rigid enforcement of rules of procedure would defeat the great object for which they were established, it is his duty to so relax them when it can be done without injustice to any as to make them subserve their true purpose, which is to promote the true administration of justice. See Barber v. State, 5 Fla. 199 , text 204."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Although there is no question that ... rules are not to be ignored to rectify counsels' mistakes, if justice to all parties is not thereby denied, in special circumstances, special concessions should be made."”
2 later decisions 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.