Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2013
6 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. § 924
Relies on Blakely v. Washington · Epps v. West · Hetzel v. Prince William County · Richardson v. State · Smylie v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Prior to August 2, 2002, Fields, Michael Green, Nathan Haas, and Brian Allen agreed to steal money they believed they would find in the home of Larry and Judy Pohlgeers. Green and Haas had allegedly burglarized the same house in 2000. On the evening of August 5, 2002, Fields and Green broke into the house while the other two stood watch outside. Fields beat Mr. Pohl- geers with a bicycle seat post and Green beat Mrs. Pohlgeers with a pipe."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State“the Pohlgeerses' residence on August 2 and 4, (2) carrying a pipe and/or hatchet, 9 and (8) breaking and entering the Pohlgeerses' residence with the intent to commit theft which resulted in bodily injury to Mrs. Pohlgeers. App. at 318 In Fields the court determined that the crimes of conspiracy to commit burglary and attempted robbery were a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State“person who breaks and enters the building or structure of another person, with intent to commit a felony in it, commits burglary as a C felony [and] charge is elevated to a class A felony when a victim suffers bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhoton v. State
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.