Ex Parte Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably 885 So. 2d 191 - McGahee v. State (2003), 924 So. 2d 737 - Turner v. State (2003)
29 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`While Lockett and its progeny require consideration of all evidence submitted as mitigation, whether the evidence is actually found to be mitigating is in the discretion of the sentencing authority.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. State · Hyde v. State“"Mitigating circumstance number two is the capital offense was committed while the defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance. The trial of this case at all of its stages has contained evidence of alleged mental illness on the part of the defendant. And certainly, at some points in the defendant's life the defendant has had certain mental illnesses; however, based upon the totality of the evidence presented during the trial of this case, the Court does not find that the capital offenses were committed while the defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance. The Court finds specifically that he was aware of what he was doing, aware of the wrongness of his acts, could fully appreciate the criminality thereof, and nevertheless proceeded to commit those acts."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ex parte Hart, 612 So.2d 536, 542 (Ala. 1992) (` Lockett [v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 , 98 S.Ct. 2954 , 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978)] does not require that all evidence offered as mitigating evidence be found to be mitigating.') ... Ex parte Slaton, 680 So.2d 909, 924 (Ala.1996) (`”
1 later decision 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.