State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably In Re Goodwin (2002), State v. Delgado (2003)
194 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 Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Harris v. McRae · Porzig v. Nolden · Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best evidence of a prior conviction is a certified copy of the judgment.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“because it is `inconsistent with the principles underlying our system of justice to sentence a person on the basis of crimes that the State either could not or chose not to prove.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]cknowledgment allows the judge to rely on unchallenged facts and information introduced for the purposes of sentencing.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Watson
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.