Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Tyson & Brother v. Banton (1927), Coblentz v. State (1933)
39 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Stone v. Mississippi · Phelps v. . Racey · Magner v. People
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the statute has made the mere possession of the articles a crime because that is the most effectual way to break up the lottery business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McCallum
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.