Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Turner v. State (1996), Davis v. State (1993)
39 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 · Griffith v. Kentucky · Ford v. Georgia · Gamble v. State · Ford 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he explanations offered in this case are simply not the kind of concrete, tangible, race-neutral and neutrally applied reasons that can overcome the strong prima facie case established by the pattern of strikes. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“strong enough to overcome the prima facie case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prosecutor's failure to explain the apparently disparate treatment of similarly situated white and black jurors ... diminishes the force of his explanation for striking a black juror.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lingo 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.