Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Murray (2007), Saul v. State (2006)
31 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Old Chief v. United States · 211 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Walker · 719 So. 2d 882 - Phillips v. State · 214 Wis. 2d 628 - State v. Alexander · State v. Lee
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a criminal defendant offers to stipulate or admit to the convicted-felon element of the felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm charge, the circuit court must accept that stipulation or admission, conditioned by an on-the-record colloquy with the defendant acknowledging the underlying prior felony conviction and acceding to the stipulation or admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Murray“whether a defendant can stipulate or admit to his status as a member of the class of individuals not allowed to possess a firearm and prohibit the State from introducing evidence detailing the nature of the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murray“State be prohibited from introducing the specific details of the felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murray
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.