Fimberg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2014
19 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 180th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · Ex Parte Burns · Williams 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant's claim he was misinformed by counsel, standing alone, is not enough for us to hold his plea was involuntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Courtney v. State“If counsel conveys erroneous information to a defendant, a plea of guilty based on that misinformation is involuntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Courtney 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.