Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
August 1994
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chimel v. California · Shirey v. State · 49 Okla. Crim. 281 - Wallace v. State · Catron v. City of Ponca City · Thompson 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [Tjhere was no apparent justification for searching the glove compartment of the automobile since it was certainly not ‘within his reach’ * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. State · Lawson v. State““When an arrest is made, it is reasonable for the arresting officer to search the person arrested in order to remove any weapons that the latter might seek to use in order to resist or effect his escape.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruhm v. State
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.