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Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1903

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
3
states following
December 1981
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably Leavine v. State (1933), Hoodless v. Jernigan (1903)

1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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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 Wallace v. State · Garner v. State · Mathis v. State · Thalheim v. State · Lester 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"For the purpose of discrediting a witness, a wide range of cross-examination is permitted as a matter of right in regard to his motives, interest, or animus as connected with the cause or the parties thereto, upon which matters he may be contradicted by other evidence."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “* * * `It is within the sound judicial discretion of the court to control the detailed examination of witnesses, and, unless an abuse of this judicial discretion is shown to the appellate court, it will not disturb or reverse the ruling.'”
    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.