Commonwealth v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably State v. Brown (1979), 243 Pa. Super. 69 - Commonwealth v. DeCampli (1976)
37 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 Eisenstadt v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Shaffer · Commonwealth v. Fortune · Commonwealth v. Davis · Montoya v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no evidence indicating that other persons shared this operation [of the garage] with him. Since heroin was found inside the garage, it may be concluded that appellant had the power to control the heroin. To prove the intent to control the heroin it had to be demonstrated that appellant knew the heroin was in his garage. (Citation omitted). There is no direct evidence to show that appellant did know the heroin was in his garage, but this knowledge can be inferred from the surrounding circumstances.” (Citation omitted), 231 Pa.Super, at 332, 331 A.2d at 859-60.”
1 later decision 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.