105 Cal. App. 3d 341 - People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 49 - People v. Avery (2002), People v. Prysock (1982)
26 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 6 Cal. 3d 415 - People v. Mijares · 3 Cal. App. 3d 514 - People v. Lee · 60 Cal. 2d 171 - People v. Edgar · 26 Cal. App. 3d 397 - People v. Santos · 53 Cal. App. 3d 40 - People v. Superior Court (Reilly)
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`reasonable and common sense construction in accordance with its apparent purpose and the intent of the Legislature.'”
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.