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.

• construing Del. Code Ann. tit. 11, § 4209 [e] [1] [o] [1987], which provides for aggravating factor when “[t]he murder was committed for pecuniary gain,” to apply to robbery
• court did not abuse its discretion by not declaring a mistrial when the prosecutor stated: “We, the State, ha[ve] been proving defendants guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for 200 years”
• previous Pennsylvania convictions for homicide and aggravated assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Walker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-09-18· cited 200×
• State v. Chew
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-06-26· cited 147×
• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• McConnell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-12-29· cited 95×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• Rauf v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-02· cited 70×
• Steckel v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-05-22· cited 66×
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-01-27· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-15· cited 50×
• Williams v. Cavazos
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-05-23· cited 47×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-10-29· cited 43×
• Lawrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-08· cited 43×
• Outten v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-12-23· cited 42×
• Weeks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-02-10· cited 39×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 36×
• Zebroski v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-07-28· cited 36×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-11-04· cited 35×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 32×
• Garden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-01-24· cited 30×
• Shelton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-01-04· cited 24×

Cites

47 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×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Dobbert v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 1,651×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Lowenfield v. Phelps
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-07· cited 1,385×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-11-18· cited 172×
• Greene v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-19· cited 163×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-11-05· cited 160×