Fain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 277th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Arizona v. Fulminante · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Montgomery v. State · Voinovich v. Quilter
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants have the right to a speedy and public trial, and the constitutional requirement that court proceedings occur in the county seat is a fundamental way to keep our ... process open and public ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cruz v. Hinojosa
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.