Ford v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Faulkner v. Arkansas Children's Hospital (2002), Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee (2002)
96 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 215 (National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act)
Relies on Wright v. Arkansas State Plant Board · Burcham v. City of Van Buren · Kildow v. Baldwin Piano & Organ · ACW, INC. v. Weiss · State ex rel. Bryant v. McLeod
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“administrative agencies are better equipped than courts, by specialization, insight through experience, and more flexible procedures to determine and analyze underlying legal issues affecting their agencies, and this recognition accounts for the limited scope of judicial review of administrative action and the refusal of the court to substitute its judgment and discretion for that of the administrative agency.”
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.