State v. Fero’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · State v. Manus · State v. Martin · Sells v. State · State v. Simonson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Then he drove into Gallup for his 9:00 a.m. appointment. Carrying his customary files and a portfolio, he appeared calm in casual conversation with witnesses in the central offices, before entering Hansen's office just after 9:00. At approximately 10:00 a.m., five shots rang out. Soon afterward, Fero came out calmly, instructed the secretary to call the police and told two other employees that everything was okay. These two men testified that he appeared”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fero v. Kerby“[g]ive justice to Mrs. Paul Hansen and her young son who have stayed in the courtroom the past four days.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fero v. Kerby“any possible prejudice to defendant was cured by the court's admonition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fero v. Kerby
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.