United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 122 · 1982
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably United States v. Harris (1985), United States v. Thoma (1984)
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Park · LaRocca v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ 'reflecting compromise or even inconsistency [are] permissible and legitimate,’ ”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[p]redisposition "refers to whether the defendant had a readiness or willingness to commit the offense charged....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.