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 confession may only be used when “freely and voluntarily made without having been induced by the expectation of any promised benefit.”
• holding that the issue of the voluntariness of a confession should have been submitted to the jury when the defendant confessed to stealing property from his employer after his employer promised he would not press charges, call the police, or fire the defendant
• to determine whether a confession is admissible when the defendant contends that the confession was influenced by a promise, test the degree of influence exerted.
• decided under former law set out in Article 726
• decided under former law set out in Article 726
• decided under former law set out in article 726

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 804×
• Janecka v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-27· cited 587×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-27· cited 477×
• Creager v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-10· cited 350×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-10· cited 202×
• Hardesty v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-08· cited 177×
• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-11· cited 133×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-02-18· cited 127×
• Sossamon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-08· cited 81×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-26· cited 80×
• People v. Haydel
  California Supreme Court· 1974-07-30· cited 75×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-05-21· cited 62×
• Bordman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-08-16· cited 59×
• Ashcraft v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1995-06-22· cited 56×
• Ashcraft v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1996-12-05· cited 54×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1995-06-01· cited 48×
• Jonathan D. Canfield v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-02-13· cited 47×
• Hill v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1995-06-01· cited 40×
• Purser v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-06-15· cited 37×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-13· cited 33×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-05-30· cited 33×
• Searcy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1890-05-14· cited 22×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-11-21· cited 15×
• McHenry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-10-03· cited 12×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-10-14· cited 3×
• Roseburough v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1953-04-22· cited 2×