Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably People v. Pantages (1931), Storey v. State (1882)
25 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
Relies on Felix 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not say the evidence of good character should have created a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors in this case, when considered in connection with the other evidence. But, as the law permits evidence of good character in criminal cases, it certainly intends it for the consideration of the jury, and it is.for the jury alone to determine whether, when considered with the other evidence, it does or does not create a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]y the common law, the jury determined merely the guilt or innocence of the prisoner; and, if their verdict was guilty, their duties were at an end. They had nothing whatever to say as to the punishment to be inflicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court alone determined what the punishment should be, its extent and its severity; with that the jury had nothing to do. Their whole duty was discharged when the verdict of guilty was pronounced.”
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.