Freeman v. Burrows’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Texas Foundaries, Inc. v. International Molders & Foundry Workers Union (1952), Carrillo v. State (1972)
101 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 Iles v. Walker, Chief Justice
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a cause become moot on appeal, all previous orders and judgments should be set aside and the cause, not merely the appeal, dismissed. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.