State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2013
1 federal appellate · 14 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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Matlock
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Aggravated Rape 1. Guilty; 2. Guilty of attempted aggravated rape; 3. Guilty of simple rape; 4. Guilty of forcible rape; 5. Guilty of attempted forcible rape; or 6. Not guilty. Attempted Aggravated Rape 1. Guilty; 2. Guilty of attempted forcible rape; 3. Guilty of attempted simple rape; or 4. Not guilty. La.C.Cr.P. Art. 814 A(8), (9).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]esidents on the outskirts of the project were served. "Of those who lived within the project and whose names were drawn for inclusion on the jury venire from which the grand jury was drawn, the chairman of the jury commission guessed that less than fifty percent resided within the heart of the project. He was also of the opinion that much less than ten percent of the grand jury venire were residents of the project. "The jury wheel from which the grand jury venire of 425 was drawn consisted of eighteen thousand names. These names were, in turn, taken from files containing two hundred thousand names compiled from the voter registration list. The commissioner could not say how many residents of the Desire Project were included on the list from which the grand jury venire was selected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Atwell v. Blackburn“the jury commission discontinued the service of subpoenas upon persons residing in the project during the preparation of the venire from which the grand jury was selected in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Atwell v. Blackburn
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.