Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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.

1. ““. . . The rule of law is well established that during closing argument the prosecutor has a right to discuss fully, from his standpoint, the inferences and deductions which may be reasonably drawn from the evidence presented at trial. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johniken v. State

2. ““ . . .We fail to find that the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the in court identification.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leppke v. State