Fields v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “coercive tendency of the Allen charge requires that its use be discontinued in this state” and requiring that any jury instruction to continue deliberations must comply with ABA standards
• setting out the recommended instruction, and holding that a trial judge should give, or re-give, this instruction if the jury is deadlocked
• recommending instruction restating unanimity requirement that could be given to apparently deadlocked jury in criminal case
• \A hung jury is a legitimate end of a criminal trial....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Gainer
  California Supreme Court· 1977-08-31· cited 256×
• United States v. William Rey
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-03-09· cited 189×
• State v. Czachor
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-04-02· cited 182×
• People v. Skinner
  California Supreme Court· 1985-09-16· cited 163×
• State v. Maupin
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1975-06-25· cited 144×
• Winters v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1974-03-20· cited 119×
• Evans v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-05-28· cited 112×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-11-12· cited 100×
• United States v. Glenn Dale Seawell
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-03-21· cited 94×
• Moreau v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-12-15· cited 92×
• Morrell v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-03-03· cited 66×
• State v. Nicholson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1975-06-23· cited 62×
• Wylie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1990-08-10· cited 52×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1973-10-12· cited 51×
• Lupro v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-11-09· cited 44×
• Burnette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-04-07· cited 44×
• State v. O'Neil
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-07-23· cited 43×
• State v. Sugimoto
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-07-11· cited 40×
• People v. Ozene
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-09-22· cited 37×
• State v. Renneberg
  Washington Supreme Court· 1974-05-23· cited 35×

Cites

64 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 7,325×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Betts v. Brady
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-01· cited 1,154×
• Norris v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-01· cited 711×
• Moore v. Dempsey
  Supreme Court· 1923-02-19· cited 518×
• Brasfield v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-11-22· cited 490×
• Jenkins v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 459×
• United States v. John Fioravanti, Nicholas Panaccione, and Angelo Pepe, Nicholas Panaccione
  Third Circuit· 1969-10-13· cited 290×
• Whitton v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-23· cited 222×
• Irven Green and Robert Benjamin Smith v. United States of America, Arnold Jack Johnson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-11-02· cited 146×
• The People v. Gardner
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-11-14· cited 137×
• United States v. James Hugh Rogers
  Fourth Circuit· 1961-04-04· cited 126×
• United States v. Roscoe Brown, Also Known as Sam, Also Known as Samuel Morris
  Seventh Circuit· 1969-06-06· cited 118×
• Thomas Lester Thaggard v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-03-28· cited 111×
• People v. Lewis
  California Court of Appeal· 1966-03-02· cited 96×
• State v. Thomas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1959-07-20· cited 92×
• Keerl v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1909-04-05· cited 89×
• James Huffman and Evelyn Nelson Huffman v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-03-13· cited 84×
• Gafford v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-04-24· cited 83×