Fambrough v. Wagley’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
543 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 543 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Gaddis v. Smith (1967), Brazos River Authority v. City of Graham (1961)
543 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Leeper v. State · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Johnson · Hudson v. State · 60 Tex. Crim. 534 - Harrelson v. State · 43 Tex. Crim. 420 - Hudson v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 543 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * If a `point' is sufficient to direct the Court's attention to the matter complained of, the Court will look to the `point' and the statement and argument thereunder to determine the question of reversible error. Simply stated, the Court will pass on both the sufficiency and the merits of the `point' in the light of the statement and argument thereunder."”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lintz v. Dillon · Sias v. Berly“a direct appeal to the jury to consider the case from an improper viewpoint, in that its effect is to ask the members of the jury to put themselves in the defendant’s place, [while clearly improper,] . is not of such a nature that its harmful effect could not have been removed, had the trial court sustained the exception thereto offered at the time the argument was made, and properly instructed the jury not to consider it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lackey
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.