State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2018
22 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 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · Gordon v. United States · 16 Cal. 3d 211 - People v. Rist · Wood v. United States · 24 Cal. 3d 222 - People v. Fries
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as against an unwilling defendant, a valid sentence cannot be increased in severity after he has commenced the serving thereof[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Puthoff“sentence commences as soon as the prisoner suffers some confinement in the custody of a sheriff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Puthoff“A court may correct an illegal sentence at any time and may correct a sentence imposed in an illegal manner within the time provided in this section for the reduction of sentence. A court may reduce a sentence: (1) Within one year after the sentence is imposed; (2) Within one hundred twenty days after receipt by the court of a remit-titur issued upon affirmance of the judgment or dismissal of the appeal; or (3) Within one hundred twenty days after entry of any order or judgment of the Supreme Court denying review of, or having the effect of upholding, a judgment of conviction; whichever is later. A court may also reduce a sentence upon revocation of probation or suspension of sentence as provided by law. The remedies provided by this section are not a substitute for nor do they affect any remedies incident to post-conviction proceedings.”
2 later decisions 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.