Fowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2014
21 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 · Ortiz v. State · Lewis v. State · Ashby v. State · Warren 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A confession is inadmissible when obtained by a promise of immunity or mitigation of punishment. Ashby v. State (1976), 265 Ind. 316 , 354 N.E.2d 192 . The relevant inquiry is whether the challenged police conduct induced a confession which was not freely self-determined. [Emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drew v. State“The level of privacy accorded appellant and his mother for their consultation was sufficient to permit discussion on the waiver decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. SD v. State“voluntarily admitted his guilt by nodding his head before the alleged inducements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drew 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.