Fairow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2011
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 338th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Lee v. Brown · North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Midland Central Appraisal District v. Midland Industrial Service Corp. · Garcia 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Middleton could not properly testify whether Mosby, at the time [of the shooting], had the culpable mental state necessary to convict appellant of capital murder, which requires an intentional killing, rather than felony murder, which does not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fairow 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.