People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 128 Ill. 2d 66 - People v. Flores · 123 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Spreitzer · 101 Ill. 2d 104 - People v. Washington · 79 Ill. 2d 147 - People v. Robinson · United States v. Jeffers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where defense counsel has a prior or contemporaneous association with the victim, the prosecution, or an entity assisting the prosecution; (2) where defense counsel contemporaneously represents a prosecution witness; and (3) where defense counsel was a former prosecutor who had been personally involved with the prosecution of defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A criminal defendant's sixth amendment right to effective assistance of counsel includes the right to conflict-free representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“certain facts about a defense attorney's status were held to engender, by themselves, a disabling conflict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.