State v. Fernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Tatum (1991), State v. Amarillo (1986)
2 district · 167 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Jackson v. Denno · Burks v. United States
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not the trial judge shall question a witness is within his sound discretion ... [and] [i]ts exercise will not be reviewed unless he has acted unreasonably, or, as it is more often expressed, abused his discretion.... The trial judge can question witnesses both on direct and cross-examination.... [I]t may be necessary to do so to clarify testimony as [the judge] has a duty to comprehend what a witness says ... [and] to see that the witness communicates with the jury in an intelligible manner.... While no precise theorem can be laid down, we have held that it is proper for a trial court to question a witness in endeavoring, without harm to the parties, to bring the facts out more clearly and to ascertain the truth ... and [intervene] where the witness is embarrassed, has a language problem or may not understand a question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the cold black and white of a printed record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.