Ferrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Henry v. State (1992), Sullinger v. State (1992)
42 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 Hill v. State · Ruiz v. State · Richmond v. State · Bowden v. State · Shaw 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence of murder against the appellant, with three eye witnesses testifying, was overwhelming.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. State“was rendered harmless by the circumstances of this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullinger 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.