United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
466 F.2d 119 · 1972
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Kurvin (1982), United States v. Rahman (1999)
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 3148 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on United States v. Vilhotti · United States v. Nitti · United States v. Manarite · United States v. Vaughan
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, [which] tends to prove knowledge . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is not, after all, a case of nitpicking over nuances in a judge’s charge; the errors go directly to a defendant’s right to have the jury told what crimes he is actually being tried for and what the essential elements of those crimes are.”
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.