Fisher v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that confession, together with evidence that charged crime was committed by someone, was sufficient to support conviction
• holding statute requiring State to produce and identify body or remains was expressly repealed and the evidence was sufficient despite such lack
• stating that \[the witness's] testimony regarding appellant's oral confession was by itself sufficient evidence to warrant a rational finding of appellant's guilt of all the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.\
• stating that \[the witness's] testimony regarding appellant's oral confession was by itself sufficient evidence to warrant a rational finding of appellant's guilt of all the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.\
• stating that “[the witness’s] testimony regarding appellant’s oral confession was by itself sufficient evidence to warrant a rational finding of appellant’s guilt of all the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• considering complainant’s “strained relationship with appellant” prior to her disappearance in concluding that State’s evidence satisfied corpus delicti of murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

143 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McDuff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-22· cited 1,412×
• Cardenas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-04-26· cited 758×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 583×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-27· cited 477×
• Carrizales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-12-11· cited 296×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-09· cited 263×
• Robbins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-23· cited 235×
• Salazar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-09· cited 154×
• Jaggers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-04· cited 153×
• Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-03-25· cited 148×
• Henry Lee Lucas v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-01-09· cited 136×
• State v. Edwards
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2009-07-10· cited 125×
• Russo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-06-07· cited 95×
• Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-10-20· cited 65×
• Herrero v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-09· cited 61×
• Miller, Christopher Adrian
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-15· cited 57×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 51×
• Puente v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1994-11-02· cited 51×
• Trejos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-11-07· cited 47×
• Lyon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1994-12-21· cited 40×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Gribble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-20· cited 251×
• Arcila v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 182×
• Gibbs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 176×
• Self v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 125×
• Easley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-12· cited 102×
• Thier v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-05-14· cited 99×
• King v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-10· cited 96×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-24· cited 73×
• Valore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-19· cited 69×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1950-02-15· cited 55×
• Brooks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-10· cited 53×
• Baldree v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-27· cited 48×
• Soffar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 44×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-22· cited 20×
• Streetman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 19×
• Bridges v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-11-28· cited 19×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1941-05-07· cited 14×