Ford v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida · Hazelwood School District 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Worded simply, the standard to which circumstantial evidence must conform is that it be of such nature that based upon the whole case it would not be clearly unreasonable for the jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the terminal ages of `young adults' defy definition, and we know of no end to the maze that could be created by classifying jurors as young adults, middle aged adults, elderly adults, and on and on.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““On the question of experts, it has long been the law of this jurisdiction that the decision as to the qualifications of an expert rests in the discretion of the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Rose
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.