85 So. 2d 609 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Prichard v. Battle · 9 Cal. 2d 508 - People v. Biggs · Kelley v. State · State v. Lee · Herndon v. Commonwealth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not regarded as imposing any additional penalty for the former conviction, so as to collide with the rule against double jeopardy or ex post facto laws,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in which the fact of a prior conviction is given an absolute and conclusive effect in determining the sentence to be imposed upon one thus characterized as an 'habitual' offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that pardoned convictions not be counted as prior 'live' felony convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.