State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1999
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Burford v. State · Miller v. State · Sands v. State · State v. Robinson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he only sentence that could legally have been ordered by a judge or jury was life imprisonment. We conclude, however, that these cases and the law set forth therein do not and cannot restrict the constitutional authority of the Governor to commute a defendant’s sentence to a term less than life....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Carroll v. Raney
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.