Ferguson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• criminal statutes are to be construed strictly in favor of the person against whom a penalty is to be imposed
• statutes which relate to same or closely related subject or object are related as in pari materia and should be construed together and compared together; courts will view entire statutory scheme to determine legislative intent
• in applying rule that criminal statutes are to be strictly contrued, nothing not clearly and intelligently described in statute's very words, as well as manifestly intended by the Legislature, shall be considered included within its terms, govern his conduct accordingly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Carawan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-03· cited 474×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 230×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-22· cited 218×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-03-14· cited 149×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 29×
• Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-11-10· cited 27×
• Smith v. Crawford
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-26· cited 23×
• State v. Merritt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-07-24· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-04-16· cited 14×
• Lamont v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-28· cited 12×
• Brenton McNeil v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-04-13· cited 10×
• DHSMV v. Pelham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-03-14· cited 9×
• Crain v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-24· cited 9×
• Amaker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-07-10· cited 8×
• Harvey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-04-12· cited 8×
• Ivory v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-10-03· cited 8×
• Cone v. State, Dept. of Health
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-10-28· cited 8×
• Ebaugh v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-09-10· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-20· cited 7×
• Ellis v. NGN of Tampa, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-18· cited 7×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reino v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-10-27· cited 102×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-08-31· cited 61×
• State v. Rodriquez
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-11-22· cited 52×
• Alachua County v. Powers
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-10-06· cited 51×
• State v. Hayles
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1970-09-30· cited 21×
• McNeill v. McNeill
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-03-28· cited 21×
• Toll v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1898-01-15· cited 8×
• Ponder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-12-12· cited 5×
• Cohen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-08-02· cited 3×
• State v. Ferguson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-12-20· cited 1×