Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Smith v. State (1997), McEwen v. State (1998)
32 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“engages in the conduct in plain, conscious, and unjustifiable disregard of harm that might result and the disregard involves a substantial deviation from acceptable standards of conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“number of African-American men in the venires from which juries [were] selected [was] not proportional to their number in the community”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“testimony surprised the State and made it necessary for the State to call [the undisclosed witness]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware 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.