Ex Parte Fierro’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Emery v. Johnson (1997), Johnson v. State (2005)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applicant has the burden to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the error contributed to his conviction or punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Carty“it is more probablethan not that the outcome of applicant's trial would have been the same absent the confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reflected that [Fierro's] parents were in the custody of the Juarez police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.