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.

• right was scrupulously honored where “police immediately ceased all questioning when [defendant] exercised his right to remain silent”
• subsequent interrogation initiated by police permissible, where police had “immediately ceased all questioning when [the defendant] exercised his right to remain silent”
• it is error to allow jury to take written or recorded statements into jury room during deliberations unless statements are consistent with defendant's theory of case
• “Fields did not invoke his right to counsel — he simply exercised his right to remain silent. Thus, we are not guided by Edwards, but by Michigan v. Mosley.”
• it is error to allow jury to take written or recorded statements into jury room during deliberations unless statements are consistent with defendant’s theory of case
• police-initiated interrogation permissible where conducted ten months after accused cut off questioning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 49×
• Mack v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 39×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-29· cited 34×
• Summage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-12· cited 24×
• Tollette v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-07· cited 23×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 23×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 16×
• State v. Pauldo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 12×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-22· cited 11×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 11×
• Nixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-07· cited 11×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-24· cited 10×
• Mathews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-16· cited 10×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 9×
• Purvis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-20· cited 9×
• State v. Hinton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 9×
• Sagenich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-22· cited 5×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-08· cited 3×
• Morales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-12· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Michigan v. Mosley
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 2,561×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-10-05· cited 117×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-18· cited 64×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-03· cited 45×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-01-16· cited 25×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-01-31· cited 18×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-09· cited 16×