State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2006
5 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 State v. Bellew · State v. Fanning
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[The prosecutor’s] argument was not made, as [appellant] asserts, to emphasize that he did not testify, but to contend, correctly or not, that the [appellant’s] request for a lawyer stopped the arresting officers from giving him a ‘breathalyzer test’ or any other tests to determine [appellant’s] degree of intoxication. We do not see how these comments might have been understood by the jury as evidence of guilt.... The remarks were brief and, even if they were improper, were not likely prejudicial to [appellant’s] defense, and certainly were not severe enough to establish manifest injustice or miscarriage of justice creating plain error under Rule 30.20.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fields 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.