Fields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 885 · 1969
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Noah (1973), United States v. McCann (1972)
33 federal appellate · 2 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. § 659
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Bruton v. United States · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Tillman 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a statute specifies several alternative ways in which an offense can be committed, the indictment may allege the several ways in the conjunctive, and a conviction thereon will stand if proof of one or more of the means of commission is sufficient.”
5 later decisions 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.