State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
306 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 308 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Maurer (1984), State v. DeMarco (1987)
306 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 Chapman v. State of California · Davis v. Alaska · Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Nixon
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 308 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either overwhelming evidence of guilt or some other indicia that the error did not contribute to the conviction.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“the comment [was] directed to the strength of the state's evidence and not to the silence of the accused * * *.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The general rule is that the pendency of a civil action brought against an accused by a witness in a criminal case is admissible as tending to show interest and bias of the witness to prove a motive to falsify, exaggerate or minimize on his part, in other words, to support a claim that such witness’ testimony may be false or inaccurate, intentionally or otherwise. Such evidence may be introduced in cross-examination. * * * “ ‘The rule has been extended to the situation where no civil action has been commenced, but such a suit is or may be contemplated, as in the case of ' consultation with, or the hiring of, an attorney.’ See, also, People v. Richmond (1971), 35 Mich.App. 115 , 192 N.W.2d 372 , and cases compiled in Annotation, 98 A.L.R.3d (1980) 1060, Sections 3(b) and 5(b).” Ferguson, 5 Ohio St.3d at 166 , 5 OBR at 385-386, 450 N.E.2d at 270 . See, also, Evid.R. 611(B) and 616.”
4 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.