Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
2
states following
April 1977
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. State · Bradshaw v. State · McClellan v. State · Rutledge v. State · McMillan v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had just killed a man, and what he was going to do now wouldn't be any worse than what he had already done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Iaukea
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.