People v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1996
13 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 People ex rel. Attorney General v. Cassiday · McGrew v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Dixon v. People · Martin v. Board of Election Commissioners · Harrington v. Harrington
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The opinion [in the Johnson case] ignores the fact that special and general provisions of the Constitution stand together. Neither destroys the other. The special controls that which it was intended to control, and to that extent displaces the general, while the general controls in all cases where the special provision does not apply."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Quimby“educational institutions not reformatory or charitable in character”
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.