Fernandez v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1980
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Jackson v. Denno · Rochin v. People of California
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without labeling the Texas procedure as the equivalent of either the New York or Massachusetts procedures (as such are labeled in Jackson), an examination of the pertinent Texas cases reveals that it is within the discretion of the trial judge to determine which of these two procedures he will follow.” Smith v. Texas, 236 F.Supp. 857, 861 (S.D.Tex.1965)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the trial judge is not obligated to find the confession voluntary beyond a reasonable doubt, there will never be such a determination. As seen in Jackson v. Denno, the jury cannot be entrusted with such a finding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clear-cut determination of the voluntariness of the confession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Beto
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.