Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Curry v. State (2000), Nethery v. State (1985)
2 federal appellate · 129 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 Thomas v. State · Brasfield v. State · Phillips v. State · Drumm v. State · Haecker 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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is clear that even though an act or omission by a defendant is statutorily defined, if that definition provides for more than one manner or means to commit that act or omission, then upon timely request, the State must allege the particular manner or means it seeks to establish.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage““[In all criminal prosecutions the accused] shall have the right to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him and to have a copy thereof.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]verything should be stated in an indictment which is necessary to be proved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. State · Marable 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.