Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Peachey v. Boswell, Mayor (1960), Allen v. Commonwealth (1917)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Horner v. United States · Meyer v. State · Lang v. Merwin · State v. Woodman · Territory of New Mexico v. Jones
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the fact that the machine would indicate the reward before it was played makes no difference. The inducement for each play was the chance that by that play the machine would be set to indicate that it would pay checks on the following play. The thing that attracted the player was the chance that ultimately he would receive something for nothing.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.