Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"To safeguard th[e] right [to present a complete defense], the [U.S. Supreme] Court has developed 'what might loosely be called the area of constitutionally guaranteed access to evidence.' Taken together, this group of constitutional privileges delivers exculpatory evidence into the hands of the accused, thereby protecting the innocent from erroneous conviction and ensuring the integrity of our criminal justice system."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Justin Barrett Blakeney v. State of Mississippi · 162 So. 3d 864 - Leon Edwards, Jr. v. State of Mississippi

2. “(1) the evidence in question must possess an exculpatory value that was apparent before the evidence was destroyed; (2) the evidence must be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means; and (3) the prosecution’s destruction of the evidence must have been in bad faith.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tillis v. State · Hardy v. State

3. “Miss. R. Prof'l Conduct Rule 3.8(b). ¶ 60. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandates that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Justin Barrett Blakeney v. State of Mississippi