Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
May 1991
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Hitchcock v. Dugger · McDougall v. North Carolina · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could not be sustained on its merits because, unlike Caldwell , in Florida the judge rather than the jury is the ultimate sentencing authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.