Fields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.2d 97 · 1947
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Quinn v. United States (1955), Barsky v. United States (1948)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 192
Relies on Jurney v. MacCracken · Townsend v. United States · American Surety Co. v. Sullivan · The Emily and the Caroline · Holmes 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘willful,’ even in criminal statutes, means no more than that the person charged with the duty knows what he is doing. It does not mean that, in addition, he must suppose that he is breaking the law." American Surety Co. v. Sullivan, 2 Cir., 1925, 7 F.2d 605 , 606.”
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.