285 Ill. App. 3d 1020 - People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 391 Ill. App. 3d 1072 - People v. Bryant (2009), 321 Ill. App. 3d 397 - People v. Grayson (2001)
32 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 142 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Steidl · 123 Ill. 2d 322 - People v. Richardson · 172 Ill. 2d 484 - People v. Gilliam · 163 Ill. 2d 367 - People v. Enis
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reviewing court's decision often turns on the difficult task of ascertaining whether the challenged comments imposed such pressure on the minority jurors that it caused them to defer to the conclusions of the majority for the purpose of expediting a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Peel“In determining the propriety of the trial court's comments, the test is whether under the totality of the circumstances the language used actually interfered with the jury's deliberations and coerced a guilty verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Peel“needless repetition of a witness's prior inconsistent statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. White
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.