United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 549 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2013
16 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Liotta v. National Forge Co. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Whitten v. United States · Cooper v. Fitzharris · United States v. Armstrong
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must demonstrate that reasonably competent retained counsel would require the investigative work sought for preparation of a defense for a client with the means to pay for it and that the denial therefore prejudiced appellant's defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.