Ferrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2008
22 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 Jones v. Howard · Anderson v. Alabama · Tichnell v. State · Martin v. Davis · Chisley 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he notion that a fully formed intent is always deliberate and premeditated, no matter how short the time between the first thought of the matter and the execution of the plan, is preposterous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defense of self-defense when deadly force is employed involves the conscious decision to employ that force”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“he” indicates it refers to Reid. . Recently, in Ferrell v. State, 304 Md. 679, 684 , 500 A.2d 1050, 1052-53 (1985), we repeated the definition of premeditation drawn from Chisley v. State, 202 Md. 87, 106 , 95 A.2d 577, 585-86 (1953) as "some appreciable period of time during which [the accused], after having formed ‘a specific purpose and design to kill’ had ‘full and conscious knowledge of the purpose to do so.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Booth 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.