Fields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2003
12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 3502
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · United States v. Agurs · Jencks v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must weigh certain factors in exercising its discretion whether to strike a witness' testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be a continuous, narrative recording rather than mere selective notations or excerpts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.