417 So. 2d 639 - Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), 438 So. 2d 380 - Lightbourne v. State (1983)
2 federal appellate · 107 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · Bates v. State Bar · Briggs v. Connecticut · In re Vendo Co.
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a motion for mistrial is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, Ferguson v. State, 417 So.2d 639 (Fla. 1982); Jackson v. State, 419 So.2d 394 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982), ... and `the power to declare a mistrial ... should be exercised with great care and ... only in cases of absolute necessity,' Salvatore v. State, 366 So.2d 745, 750 (Fla. 1978), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 885 , 100 S.Ct. 177 , 62 L.Ed.2d 115 (1979).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Delgado v. State · Morales v. State“may be erroneously admitted yet not be so prejudicial as to require reversal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“my first time in prison, all three of us was [sic] together”
3 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.