United States v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 334 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably United States v. Frost (1997), United States v. Crayton (2004)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Wade v. Hunter · Will v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a timely objection by the defendant, (2) the jury’s collective opinion that it cannot agree on a verdict, (8) the length of the jury deliberations, (4) the length of the trial, (5) the complexity of the issues presented to the jury, (6) any proper communication which the judge has with the jury, (7) the effects of possible exhaustion and the impact which coercion of further deliberations might have on the verdict, and (8) the trial judge’s belief that additional prosecutions will result in continued hung juries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although a writ of mandamus should not generally be used to review the discretionary decisions of trial courts, the writ may be issued where the trial court's actions amount to a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The remedy of mandamus is a drastic one, to be invoked only in extraordinary situations where the petitioner can show a clear and indisputable right to the relief sought.”
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.