Fisher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Long v. State (1991), Chambers v. State (1993)
48 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 Allen v. Williamson · 163 Tex. Crim. 287 - Jordan v. State · Searcy v. State · 164 Tex. Crim. 347 - Williams v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 436 - McHenry 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A confession obtained as a result of a benefit positively being promised to the defendant made or sanctioned by one in authority and of such character as would be likely to influence a defendant to speak untruthfully is not admissible.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. State · Freeman v. State“inclined to admit a crime he had not committed ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The actual relation between the parties, and perhaps the relation as it actually appeared to the accused, is the controlling factor. [[Image here]] The test is whether the accused was likely to view the promise as authoritative, and this test is to be determined by the standard of the person confessing. The injured party, the employee of the accused, and officers, have been held to be within the meaning of ‘persons within authority.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wayne 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.