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← 248 Ga. 241 - Ford v. State

Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
April 1996
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Timmreck · Fleming v. State · State v. Germany · Jones v. Lee

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Fleming does not apply to all cases in which the death penalty could have been sought, but, instead, only to those cases in which the death penalty is being sought.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Rule 11 practices in the federal courts are indicative of `good practice.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.