Fowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Romano v. State (1993), Cargle v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Katz v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Payton v. New York
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; and 2. Whether the evidence supports the jury finding of a statutory aggravating circumstances as enumerated in Section 701.12 of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duvall v. State“If all [Mr. Fox] did was shoot and club, who did the stabbing, ladies and gentlemen? You don't need Tom Bevel [the State's blood spatter expert] to answer that question for you although he answered it very well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Based upon the facts of the case, the murder was committed for the purpose of avoiding and preventing a lawful arrest and prosecution. (O.R. 121)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banks 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.