State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably State v. Bashor (1980), State v. Long (2005)
36 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 Barker v. Wingo · Pennsylvania Company v. Roy · State v. Steward · State v. Gander · Fitzpatrick v. Crist
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the State, the question is whether the prosecution was pursued with reasonable diligence ... On the other side of the coin, it must be determined what percentage of the delay is chargeable to the defendant and this amount of time must accordingly be deducted from the total delay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Walker““You are instructed that ‘serious bodily injury’ means bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the fuction or process of any bodily member or organ.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bashor““You are instructed that ‘forcible felony’ means any felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bashor
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.