Fields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2012
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · In re Oliver · Offutt v. United States · Terry · Green 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he elements of criminal contempt are (1) willful disobedience (2) of a court order (3) causing an obstruction of the orderly administration of justice.... The offense requires both a contemptuous act and a wrongful state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Warner
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.