United States v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 249 · 1993
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Mergerson (1993), United States v. Mills (1994)
35 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · Henderson v. Morgan · Ristaino v. Ross · 9221 Associates v. Industrial State Bank · Exxon Corp. v. Department of Revenue of Wisconsin
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially prejudiced the Government's ability to prosecute the case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the defendant has asserted a viable claim of innocence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the guilty plea was somehow tainted.”
3 later decisions 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.