State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Azar v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2003), State v. Swavola (1992)
66 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 Carson v. Polley · Quick v. Crane · State v. McGuire · State v. Vallejos · State v. Diaz
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Character" is a propensity that is both general (i.e. propensity for "honesty" or "dishonesty," "violence" or "non-violence") as opposed to specific (i.e., propensity for executing certain kinds of violent or dishonest acts, or for executing them in a certain manner) and possessed of good or bad moral connotations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lamure“I think you should return . . . a guilty verdict, for a crime here. Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres“[a] valiant effort to make general sense out of general nonsense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lamure
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.