Ford v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 593 · 1927
Citation profile
660 federal appellate · 81 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,180 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Stirone v. United States (1960), Custis v. United States (1994)
660 federal appellate · 81 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFord v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bain Jr · Hyde v. United States · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Burton v. United States
Cited together with Stirone v. United States · United States v. Miller · Bain Jr · United States v. Bowman · Frisbie v. Collins
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 1,180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he conspiring was directed to violation of the United States law within the United States, by men within and without it, and everything done was at the procuration and by the agency of each for the other in pursuance of the conspiracy and the intended illegal importation. In such a case all are guilty of the offense of conspiring to violate the United States law whether they are in or out of the country.”) (emphasis added); United States v. Inco Bank & Trust Corp., 845 F.2d 919 , 920 (11th Cir.1988) (”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This maxim properly applies only when in the natural association of ideas in the mind of the reader that which is expressed is so set over by way of strong contrast to that which is omitted that the contrast enforces the affirmative inference that that which is omitted must be intended to have opposite and contrary treatment.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he issue whether the ship was seized within the prescribed limit did not affect the question of the defendants' guilt or innocence. It only affected the right of the court to hold their persons for trial.”
7 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.