State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1993
23 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 Ocampo v. United States · Craig & Co. v. Pierson Lumber Co. · People v. Cohen · People v. Crespi · State v. Fox
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclude to a moral certainty every other hypothesis excepting that of guilt”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson · State v. Flake““Under all the circumstances of the instant case, however, we are unable to escape the conviction that by reason of the errors hereinbefore set out the defendant did not receive that fair and impartial .trial which is guaranteed him by the Constitution and laws of this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoffman“Too much care and precaution cannot be used to preserve the purity of jury trials. * * * We cannot be too strict in guarding trials by jury from improper influences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown
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.