Fierro v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Livingston v. State (1987), Keeton v. State (1987)
5 federal appellate · 68 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Aguilar v. Texas · Jackson v. Denno · Brown v. Illinois
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that there was no prior discussion of robbery and no indication of an intent to commit robbery mentioned in the confession is not controlling. It is true there was no evidence that appellant demanded of the victim money or property prior to shooting him, but a verbal demand is not the talisman of an intent to steal. Such intent may be inferred from actions or conduct.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lincecum v. State · Ibanez v. State“"... [W]hether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt_ [citations omitted.] The evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict.... We apply this standard by determining whether the evidence supports an inference other than the guilt of the appellant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Capital Murder “(a) A person commits an offense if he commits murder as defined under Section 19.02(a)(1) of this code and: * * * * * * “(2) the person intentionally commits the murder in the course of committing or attempting to commit ... rob bery, ...” 6”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Drew v. State · White 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.