State v. Fiechter’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably State v. Hogervorst (1977), Martinez v. State (1978)
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
Relies on United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · State v. Romero · State v. Sainz
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the state’s participation in the criminal enterprise reaches the point where it can be said that except for the conduct of the state a crime would probably not have been committed or because the conduct is such that it is likely to induce those to commit a crime who would normally avoid crime, or, if the conduct is such that if allowed to continue would shake the public’s confidence in the fair and honorable administration of justice, this then becomes entrapment as a matter of law. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sheetz“When the state’s participation in the criminal enterprise reaches the point where it can be said that [1] except for the conduct of the state a crime would probably not have been committed or [2] because the conduct is such that it is likely to induce those to commit a crime who would normally avoid crime, or, [3] if the conduct is such that if allowed to continue would shake the public’s confidence in the fair and honorable administration of justice, this then becomes entrapment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Vallejos
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.