Ford v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
888
cited by 888 later decisions
7
cited 7 times by the Supreme Court
32
states following
March 2024
most recently cited
428 federal appellate · 123 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 888 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Rock v. Arkansas (1987), Crane v. Kentucky (1986)
428 federal appellate · 123 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 32 states
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.
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.