Commonwealth v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Abramian v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (2000), Commonwealth v. Whelton (1998)
2 district · 24 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 Patton v. Yount · Ross v. Oklahoma · Aldridge v. United States · Simon v. Solomon · Commonwealth v. Helfant
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he determination of a juror's impartiality 'is essentially one of credibility, and therefore largely one of demeanor'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“determination of a juror's impartiality 'is essentially one of credibility,' " to which this court gives great deference. Commonwealth v. Ferguson , 425 Mass. 349 , 352-353 (1997) (citation omitted). "A trial judge's initial determination that a juror stands indifferent will not be disturbed on appeal unless the defendant demonstrates that there was a substantial risk that the case would be decided in whole or in part on the basis of extraneous issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Commonwealth v. Lattimore , 396 Mass. 446 , 449 (1985).”
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.