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.

• defendant's confinement of his victims after a robbery in order to facilitate his escape constitutes kidnapping
• forced confinement of restaurant employees in restroom after robbery was ‘‘intended to make it more difficult for the victims to identify the perpetrator and immediately call for help’’
• “[T]he determination of whether the confinement makes the other crime substantially easier of commission or substantially lessens the risk of detection does not depend upon the accomplishment of its purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State of Iowa v. Scott Robert Robinson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-02-06· cited 99×
• Chavez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-11-21· cited 79×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-02-29· cited 66×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-08-27· cited 44×
• Lovette v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-31· cited 40×
• Parker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-11-27· cited 29×
• Black v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-12-17· cited 27×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-11· cited 24×
• Kennedy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-06-26· cited 19×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-25· cited 18×
• Gould v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-03-14· cited 16×
• Formor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-21· cited 14×
• Sanders v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-07-01· cited 14×
• Biggs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-03· cited 13×
• Banks v. Commissioner of Correction
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-05-12· cited 13×
• Payne v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-02-10· cited 11×
• Kent v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-12-05· cited 11×
• Wilcher v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-12-21· cited 10×
• Cathcart v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-19· cited 10×
• Richardson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-18· cited 9×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Buggs
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-03-06· cited 242×
• Faison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-02-10· cited 228×
• Friend v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-19· cited 24×
• Chaney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-02-20· cited 10×
• Ferguson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-02-10· cited 5×