United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.3d 20 · 2016
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Faust (2017), United States v. $23,000 in United States Currency (2004)
15 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Mendenhall · Michigan v. Long · California v. Hodari D. · Michigan v. Chesternut · 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably suspects that the person apprehended is committing or has committed a criminal offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n view of all of the circumstances surrounding the incident,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Massachusetts statute for ADW, 'which criminalizes an assault upon another by means of a dangerous weapon, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' as required by the ACCA's Force Clause.”
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.