Commonwealth v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. LaCava (1995), Commonwealth v. Simmons (1995)
5 federal appellate · 53 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Dunaway v. New York · Sedillo v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant shall be present at the arraignment, at every stage of the trial including the impaneling of the jury and the return of the verdict, and at the imposition of sentence, except as otherwise provided by this rule. The defendant’s absence without cause shall not preclude proceeding with the trial including the return of the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“discovery is a matter for the trial court's discretion. . . . A defendant has no right to the statement of a witness until after the witness testifies on direct examination.”
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.