Fears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2006
10 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 Holland v. State · Hall v. State · Thompson v. State · Pickens v. State · Hill 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The granting of immunity is not a constitutional right but only one authorized by statute. Under Ark. Stat. Ann. § 28-533 (Supp. 1975) the granting of immunity is within the discretion of the prosecutor when in his judgment such a grant of immunity is necessary to the public interest. The purpose of immunity statutes is to aid the prosecution in apprehending criminals by inducing witnesses to testify for the State. See 22 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 46 (1). The testimony of [the defense witness] was not offered to prove appellant’s guilt or innocence but as a collateral attack on [the informant’s] credibility. To have granted her immunity would have defeated the purpose of the statutory provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rood v. State
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.