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 the defendant was not entitled to forcefully resist the officer's attempt to apprehend him during an alleged illegal arrest
• holding that police officers had “had no legal right to remove” vehicle without following statutory notice procedures
• holding that a private citizen may not use foree or resist a peaceful arrest by one he knows or has good reason to believe is an authorized officer performing his duties, regardless of whether the arrest is legal or illegal
• holding that private citizen may not use force or resist peaceful arrest by one he knows or has good reason to believe is authorized officer performing his duties, regardless of whether arrest is legal or illegal
• declaring the common law rule to be \outmoded in our modern society\
• where officer had no legal duty to remove defendant's pickup, defendant was not interferring with the execution of a legal duty and, hence, his arrest for interferring with a police officer was illegal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cole v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-31· cited 78×
• State v. Valentine
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-05-01· cited 72×
• Shoultz v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-09-22· cited 64×
• Casselman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-01-17· cited 57×
• Alspach v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-09-11· cited 57×
• State v. Moriarity
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-08-10· cited 32×
• City of Indianapolis v. Ervin
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-05-29· cited 31×
• Barnes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2011-05-12· cited 28×
• State v. Wilkerson
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1988-06-30· cited 24×
• State v. Howell
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-02-11· cited 22×
• State v. Richardson
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2010-06-03· cited 19×
• Lemon v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-07-06· cited 16×
• Wise v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-03-04· cited 14×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-09-10· cited 13×
• Troy R. Gibbons v. J. Higgins, Conduct Adjustment Board Chairman, Officer J. Melly, Scott Roberts, Conduct Adjustment Board Members, 2
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-12-20· cited 9×
• Bovey v. City of Lafayette, Ind.
  N.D. Indiana· 1984-05-23· cited 9×
• Roddel v. Town of Flora
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-10-21· cited 9×
• Dora v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-02-12· cited 6×
• Bowden v. Town of Speedway, Ind.
  S.D. Indiana· 2008-02-13· cited 6×
• Hamilton v. City of New Albany
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-06-16· cited 4×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Elmore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-11-08· cited 233×
• Miller v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-12-15· cited 95×
• Heichelbech v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-04-14· cited 42×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-06-04· cited 18×