Fairman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Jacobs v. State (1975), Tracy Petrocelli v. Ron Angelone (2001)
28 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · State v. Swiger · Garner v. State · People v. . Marendi · State v. Polan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that without a properly authenticated copy of Fairman’s conviction of the week before, no proof could otherwise be made of it. It was error for the prosecution to ask the question because it was unprepared to prove its [the prior felony conviction’s] existence in the event of Fairman’s denial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colle 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.