242 So. 2d 448 - Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1994
4 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 192 So. 2d 923 - Tate v. State · Herrington v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The Court instructs the jury that a person cannot intentionally provoke another person to attack him and then claim he reacted to the attack in self-defense. 2. ... the Court instructs the jury that Officer Dillard was not the aggressor when he struck the Defendant. 3. ... the Defendant cannot plead self-defense. ( 242 So.2d at 449-450 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McHale v. State
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.