62 Cal. 2d 538 - People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Medina v. California (1992), 67 Cal. 2d 105 - People v. Hill (1967)
75 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 Douglas v. People of State of California · 59 Cal. 2d 128 - In Re De La O · 62 Cal. 2d 226 - People v. Shipman · People v. Brown · 59 Cal. 2d 247 - Department of Mental Hygiene v. Hawley
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a proceeding under section 1368 a defendant is not charged with a criminal act and is not subject to criminal proceedings or punishment if he is found insane. It is a special proceeding rather than a criminal action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be regarded as part of the proceedings in the criminal case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Medina v. California
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.