State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2007
3 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 408 So. 2d 1099 - State v. Comeaux · 424 So. 2d 997 - State v. Jackson · 420 So. 2d 950 - State v. Reed
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By this assignment the defendant contends that his conviction was based only on his confession without any other evidence connecting him to the offense. The defendant argues that in order for a voluntary confession to be admissible and to support a conviction the state should not only have to prove that a crime has been committed but should also have to prove an independent link between the defendant and the crime. Defendant cites State v. Reed, 420 So.2d 950 (La.1982) in which the court, after holding that when the details of a proven corpus delicti are corroborated by a voluntary confession, the confession is admissible, noted that, in addition, tire marks from the defendant's car also linked him to the crime. The parenthetical reference to the additional link between the defendant and the crime in the Reed case did not establish such an additional link as a standard or requirement for the admissibility of a voluntary confession or for judging the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction. There is no such requirement. In this case, proof of the burglary and taking of the truck, together with the defendant's voluntary confession, constituted sufficient evidence of his guilt of the offenses for which he was convicted. [burglary and unauthorized use of a movable].”
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.