Ford v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.2d 919 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2017
13 federal appellate · 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such determination should appear plainly on the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“responsibility, obligation and duty of the Trial Judge”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . absent a knowing and intelligent waiver, no person may be imprisoned for any offense, whether classified as petty, misdemeanor, or felony, unless he was represented by counsel at his trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Twyman v. Oklahoma
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.