State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Foucha v. Louisiana (1992), In Re Applications for the Commitment of Sl (1983)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 75 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 State v. Krol · State v. Carter
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reestablish its authority to restrict the liberty of the committee by showing that his present condition warrants their continuance[,]”
1 later decision 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.