State v. Ferdinando’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
July 1997
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. Medberry · State v. Faust · State v. Duboise · State v. Buchanan · State v. Hopper
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dealing of lethal blows after the deceased had been felled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rook
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.