Ferrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably 808 So. 2d 145 - Darling v. State (2002), Butler v. State (2003)
25 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 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Camp · Dufour v. Mississippi · 571 So. 2d 415 - Campbell v. State · Harvard v. Florida · King v. Florida
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, although the court found a number of mitigating circumstances established, it assigned little weight to each. The lone aggravating circumstance, on the other hand, is weighty. The prior violent felony Ferrell was convicted of committing was a second-degree murder bearing many of the earmarks of the present crime....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the mitigating circumstances that there was some impairment of Ferrell's ability to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law at the time of the crime, that Ferrell was under some mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the killing, and that Ferrell was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the killing. The court assigned”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ferrell v. State“[t]he record shows that Dr. Upson [the defense expert witness] testified in both the guilt and penalty phases and that his brief testimony in the penalty phase (ten pages of transcript) merely encapsulated his vastly more extensive (ninety-two pages of transcript) and detailed guilt phase testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ferrell 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.