State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Seltzer v. Morton (2007), State v. Herman (2008)
63 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 California v. Green · United States v. Russell · Maryland v. Craig · State v. Just · State v. Van Kirk
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Walker“[s]pecific objections must be made to portions of testimony deemed inappropriate; broad general objections do not suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re TW
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.