Fletcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Hernandez v. State (1986), Gainous v. State (1969)
38 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 United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Anderson v. McKay · Breen v. Beto · 159 Tex. Crim. 535 - Redding v. State · Stephens 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having proved want of consent of the owner and occupant of the building as alleged in the indictment, the state was not required to allege or prove want of consent of any other party claimed to have authority to give consent to the breaking and entry of the building, this being purely a matter of defense. [Citations omitted]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hogan v. State“We are unable to agree that appellant was deprived of his constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 6th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, or that a different result would have been reached by the jury but for any of the acts or omissions of his court appointed trial counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez 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.