Fields v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably 81 So. 2d 645 - Herring v. Eiland (1955), Farrington v. Richardson (1944)
7 federal appellate · 18 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 Leblanc v. Yawn · Gallemore v. Gallemore · McIlroy v. McIlroy · Van Ness v. . Ransom · Appleby v. Estates of Appleby
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.
“... the attorney who represented Mrs. Fields, claimant, in her divorce action testified as to the form of notes he used in his practice, such forms being the same as those prepared and used by the Ft. Pierce Bank and Trust Company. Two employees of that bank testified as to the form of the notes used, by the bank both saying the notes had `seal' on them. A copy of each form of note was introduced into evidence as Plaintiff's Exhibits `F' and `G'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It must be present, certain, and vested interest, and not an interest uncertain, remote, or contingent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gay v. McCaughan
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.