وَهُوَ كُلُّ ثَانٍ مُعْرَبٍ بِإِعْرَابِ سَابِقِهِ مِنْ جِهَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ.
Translation: A follower is a subsequent declinable word sharing the case of an earlier word in a single grammatical respect.
The qualification in one grammatical respect requires a syntactic relationship. Two adjacent words having the same case ending does not by itself establish a follower.