United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
371 F.3d 910 · 2004
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Figueroa-Espana (2007), United States v. Cellitti (2004)
16 federal appellate · 1 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brown v. Illinois · United States v. Matlock
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“standard where district court did not make any findings of fact); [United States v. Smith, 543 F.2d 1141, 1145 (5th Cir. 1976)] (same). Nor UNITED STATES v. JOHNSON 13 does it present a situation where the record supports only one conclusion, cf. United States v. Johnson, 212 F.3d 1313, 1316 (D.C. Cir. 2000) (finding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When . . . a district court denies a motion to suppress evidence, without making or being requested to make findings of fact, the result will be upheld on appeal if any reasonable view of the evidence, looked at in the light most favorable to the government, will sustain the denial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported suppression where testimony was uncontroverted), or where the district court’s assessment of credibility is clear, e.g., United States v. Griffin, 7 F.3d 1512, 1516 (10th Cir. 1993) (finding”
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.