Ford v. Clement’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2015
1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1351 · 28 U.S.C. § 1602 (§ 4 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976)
Relies on Hanna v. Plumer · Morrison v. Olson · Koch Refining Co. v. Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. · Wainwright v. · Joseph v. Office of the Consulate General of Nigeria
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental to the efficient execution of all of the other consulate functions enumerated by the Vienna Convention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jimenez v. Delgado · Park v. Shin“performed in the exercise of consular functions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Park v. Shin
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.