United States v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
2023
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Rita v. United States · United States v. Diaz-Villafane · United States v. Jiménez-Beltre · United States v. Cintrón-Echautegui · United States v. Curran
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.
“rule on factual disputes or conclude that a ruling is unnecessary because the court will not take the disputed matter into account when sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider any evidence with sufficient indicia of reliability, and can rely upon 'virtually any dependable information.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so long as the record read as a whole reliably shows that the judge implicitly resolved the defendant's objections.”
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.