Ferrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2016
21 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 Carrier v. State · Coleman v. State · Henley v. State · 181 Ind. App. 232 - Middleton v. State · Phillips 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who knowingly or intentionally has sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex when: (1) The other person is compelled by force or threat of force ... commits rape ... the offense is a Class A felony if it is committed ... while armed with a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayo v. State“A person who breaks and enters the building or structure of another person with intent to commit a felony in it, commits burglary ... the offense is ... a Class A felony if it results in either bodily injury or serious bodily injury to any person other than a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayo v. State“a building, structure, or other enclosed space, permanent or temporary, movable or fixed, that is a person's home or place of lodging.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State
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.