United States v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 786 · 1948
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1984
22 federal appellate ·
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 Heike v. United States · Paschen v. United States · Bogy v. United States · Preeman v. United States · Mackett v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district attorney is quite free to comment legitimately and to speak fully although harshly upon the action and conduct of the accused, if the evidence supports his comments, as is the accused’s counsel to comment upon the nature of the evidence and the character of the witnesses which the Government produces and which is favorable to him.” United States v. Freeman, 167 F.2d 786 , 791 (7th Cir. 1948), cert. denied, 335 U.S. 817 , 69 S.Ct. 37 , 93 L.Ed. 372 .”
1 later decision 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.