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.

• rejecting, as unreasonable, defendant’s hypothesis that because victim’s bodies were left overnight in a wooded area, a passerby could have taken their money and jewelry
• rejecting, as unreasonable, Defendant’s hypothesis that because victims’ bodies were left overnight in a wooded area, a passerby could have taken their money and jewelry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Barclay v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 820×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-15· cited 122×
• Ferguson Ex Rel. Ferguson v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-08-26· cited 72×
• Buenoano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-23· cited 67×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-17· cited 66×
• Stano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-11-01· cited 62×
• Lukehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 54×
• Saavedra v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-06-03· cited 50×
• Doyle v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-10-18· cited 46×
• Ferguson v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-12-09· cited 44×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-31· cited 41×
• Lara v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-24· cited 36×
• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-05-14· cited 33×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-24· cited 33×
• Gilliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-11-05· cited 33×
• John Ferguson v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-05-21· cited 31×
• Bradford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-11-30· cited 29×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-06· cited 23×
• Muwwakil v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-28· cited 23×

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• United States v. Matlock
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-20· cited 3,648×
• Michigan v. Mosley
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 2,561×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-11-16· cited 171×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-11-27· cited 139×
• Awkard v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 122×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-12-08· cited 83×
• Ashley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1972-05-03· cited 77×
• United States v. Mary Cullar Brown
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-03-08· cited 71×
• Silva v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-03-24· cited 63×
• United States v. Bienvenido Mercado Vasquez
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-03-22· cited 61×
• Wheeler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-03-24· cited 58×
• Shriner v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-05-22· cited 55×
• Witt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-02-03· cited 48×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-02-22· cited 45×
• Mines v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-09-25· cited 42×
• Dobbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-07-05· cited 39×