State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bowler v. State · Tyler v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an indictment for false pretenses, it is necessary to charge that the pretenses were false; that the defendant knew them to he false; and he got from another certain money or other valuable things; and that the pretenses were the moving cause whereby the money or things were obtained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fitzgerald
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.