Fields v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 879 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Patterson v. Illinois (1988), Barrera v. Young (1986)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · Brewer v. Williams · Wyrick v. Fields
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for [Bad Hand and/or Mesteth] to assume that [Bad Hand] would not be informed of the polygraph readings and asked to explain any unfavorable result[s]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the validity of any subsequent waiver of either the fifth or sixth amendment right to counsel is judged by essentially the same standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the appropriate standard for reviewing the validity of a waiver of the sixth amendment right to have counsel present at an interrogation is essentially the same standard applied to waivers of the fifth amendment right to counsel where the right to counsel has been previously invoked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.