State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Wallace (1996), State v. Quino (1992)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 77 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 Katz v. United States · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mapp v. Ohio · Buckley v. Valeo · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'prudential rules’ of judicial self-governance ‘founded in concern about the proper—and properly limited— role of courts in a democratic society’ are always of relevant concern.” For”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The judicial power of the State shall be vested in one supreme court, one intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, district courts and in such other courts as the legislature may from time to time establish. The several courts shall have original and appellate jurisdiction as provided by law and shall establish time limits for disposition of cases in accordance with their rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[n]othing in Article III of the Federal Constitution prevents a state appellate court from rendering an advisory opinion concerning the constitutionality of stale legislation if it considers it appropriate to do so.” State v. Fields, 67 Haw. 268 , 274 & n. 4, 686 P.2d 1379 , 1385 & n. 4 (1984) (brackets and certain internal quotation marks omitted). However,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Cutsinger
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.