401 So. 2d 204 - Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Taylor v. State (1994), 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990)
96 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 Isaiah H. Spears v. United States · 38 Wash. 2d 593 - State v. Wilson · Green v. State · Key v. State · 382 So. 2d 614 - Abercrombie 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "A statement which is useful in identifying a person, time, place or other thing is admissible for that purpose as a hearsay exception. The statement, of course, may not be considered as evidence of the truth of the matter asserted but only for the limited purpose of identification.' " 'While there is a split of authority on this issue among the different states, the rule above cited is the law of Alabama, Anno. 71 A.L.R.2d 449 , at 482-85, 491 (1960). The fact that a third person observed another identify the defendant is "an independent fact to which the witness . . . could testify just as to any other fact.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Key v. State , 240 Ala. 19 , 20 , 197 So. 364 , (1940), relying on Green v. State , 96 Ala. 29 , 11 So. 478 , (1891); see also State v. Wilson , 38 Wn.2d 593 , 231 P.2d 288 , cert. denied , 342 U.S. 855 , 72 S.Ct. 81 , 96 L.Ed. 644 (1951).'”
1 later decision 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.