Fields v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Lancaster v. State (2002), Johnson v. Commonwealth (2003)
28 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Colorado v. Connelly · Sedillo v. United States · Estelle v. Smith
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Inconsistent with the declarant’s testimony; (2) Consistent with the declarant’s testimony and is offered to rebut an express or implied charge against the declarant of recent fabrication or improper influence or motive; or (3) One of identification of a person made after perceiving the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berrier v. Bizer“Absent police conduct causally related to the confession, there is simply no basis for concluding that any state actor has deprived a criminal defendant of due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Soto v. Commonwealth“mere fact that the police transported Appellant”
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.