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← 125 Nev. 785 - Fields v. State

Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2022
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · Chambers v. Mississippi · Petrocelli v. State · United States v. Pipola

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “should give the jury a specific instruction explaining the purposes for which the evidence is SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA (0) 1947A admitted immediately prior to its admission and should give a general instruction at the end of the trial reminding the jurors that certain evidence may be used only for limited purposes.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “the evidence was presented or argued at trial for its forbidden tendency to prove propensity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the use to which the evidence was actually put.”
    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.