United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 535 · 1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2013
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Lumbra v. United States · United States v. Spaulding · Miller v. United States · United States v. Weeks · Thompson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is that: ‘The nonappearance of a litigant at the trial or his failure to testify as to fact's material to his case and as to which he has especially full knowledge creates an inference that he refrained from appearing or testifying because the truth, if made to appear, would not aid his contention.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.