Fields v. Wharrie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Coerced testimony is testimony that a witness is forced by improper means to give; the testimony may be true or false. Fabricated testimony is testimony that is made up; it is invariably false. False testimony is the equivalent; it is testimony known to be untrue by the witness and by whoever cajoled or coerced the witness to give it.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anderson v. City of Rockford · 315 F. Supp. 3d 1026 - Serrano v. Guevara

2. “[c]oercively interrogating witnesses, paying witnesses for testimony, and witness-shopping may be deplorable, and these tactics may contribute to wrongful convictions, but they do not necessarily add up to a constitutional violation even when their fruits are introduced at trial”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coleman v. City of Peoria · Anderson v. City of Rockford

3. “[T]he fabrication of evidence harmed the defendant before and not just during the trial, because it was used to help indict him.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. City of Chi. · 315 F. Supp. 3d 1026 - Serrano v. Guevara