Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1999
9 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 Simon 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He is just this way: If you ask and want him, he is going to give you the answer you desire. If you want a `yes' he will give it to you, and if you want a `no' he will give you that.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is manifest that the confessions obtained by the marshal while the boy was in his custody were inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“What is the nature of his mind as to brightness?”
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.