Fields v. Suthers’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Peyton v. Rowe · Chatman-Bey v. Thornburgh · People v. Zapotocky · Kodama v. Johnson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The writ of habeas corpus is designed primarily to determine whether a person is being detained unlawfully and therefore should be immediately released from custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nowak v. Suthers“as a remedy to adjudicate a prisoner's claim that he was being denied consideration for discretionary parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nowak v. Suthers“duty to construe statutes in a way that does not raise constitutional concerns”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Loveall
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.