Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State (1987), 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State (1983)
38 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 Rushing v. Jacksonville Electric Authority · 351 So. 2d 957 - Earnest v. State · State v. Rodriquez · Fraterrigo v. State · 59 So. 2d 57 - McNeill v. McNeill
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tatutes which relate to the same or to a closely related subject or object are regarded as in pari materia and should be construed together and compared with each other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`nothing that is not clearly and intelligently described in [a penal statute's] very words, as well as manifestly intended by the Legislature, is to be considered as included within its terms.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.