592 So. 2d 271 - Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 1993
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Maryland v. Craig · Gonzales 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant's right to confront accusatory witnesses may be satisfied absent a physical, face-to-face confrontation at trial only where denial of such confrontation is necessary to further an important public policy and only where the reliability of the testimony is otherwise assured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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