Fowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Cannon v. State (1984), Boyde v. State (1974)
24 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 Hoffa v. United States · United States v. Hoffa · Thompson v. State · 96 Tex. Crim. 401 - Vineyard v. State · 157 Tex. Crim. 200 - Allison 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I am certainly not going to prosecute a man that I don’t feel in my own heart is guilty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Givens v. State · Longoria v. State“It appears at the present time, at least, that when a public official has been accused of misconduct, he is expected to deny it or credence will be given to the charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knapp 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.