Commonwealth v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Thore v. Howe (2006), United States v. Whindleton (2015)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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 Commonwealth v. Freeman · Williams v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Commonwealth v. Delgado · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. McCan
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a wanton or reckless act . . . causing physical or bodily injury to another”
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.