Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Pilcher v. State (1990), State v. Rutledge (2003)
56 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 · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · Burger v. Kemp · Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the morning following the burglary, [Jo Ann Willis] awoke to find McNichols, appellant Ford and McNichols’ nephew, together with liquor and cigarettes, in her house. She stated that she did not know where the liquor came from, that she thought it may have been stolen, but she did not know. In any event, she asked the three parties to help her put it in the car so that she could take it away from the house. Jo Ann drove the appellants McNichols and Ford, McNichols’ nephew, Johnny Wyllis, and another party to a tavern, Fat Daddy’s, where McNichols sold portions of the stolen liquor to the tavern owner, William Harvey. Jo Ann’s testimony was corroborated to some extent by Johnny Wyllis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) where defenses are antagonistic; (2) where it is difficult to segregate the evidence; (3) where there is a lack of substantial evidence implicating one defendant except for the accusation of the other defendant; (4) where one defendant could have deprived the other of all peremptory challenges; (5) where if one defendant chooses to testify the other is compelled to do so; (6) where one defendant has no prior criminal record and the other has; (7) where circumstantial evidence against one defendant appears stronger than against the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eveland v. State“Mere presence, acquiescence, silence or knowledge that a crime is being committed, in the absence of a legal duty to act, is not sufficient to make one an accomplice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calloway 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.