State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Stevenson (2004), PSE Consulting, Inc. v. Mercede (2004)
45 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jackson v. Denno · State v. Golding · Richardson v. Marsh · Michigan v. Mosley
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The petitioner was convicted after a jury trial of felony murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54c, attempt to commit robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 (a) (2) and 53a-134 (a) (1), and conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-48 and 53a-134 (a) (2). The trial court sentenced the petitioner to thirty years in prison, followed by twenty years of special parole. The petitioner was represented before and during trial by ... Carroll.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jury [is] presumed to follow the court's directions in the absence of a clear indication to the contrary.”
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.