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333 So. 2d 861 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Radke v. State · 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State · 49 Ala. App. 654 - Daniels v. State · Pinkerton v. State · 30 Ala. App. 94 - Green 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where, as here, the presence of the accused at the scene is established by both direct and circumstantial evidence, and the evidence of the accused's knowledge of the presence of the prohibited substance is shown together with other incriminating evidence, the issue of the defendant's guilt should be submitted to the jury.”
    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.