State v. Fredlund’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Johnson (1966), State v. Leinweber (1975)
1 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 People v. Majors · 70 Cal. App. 225 - People v. Brannon · Commonwealth v. Browning · State v. O'Brien · State v. Cosgrove
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such killing of a human .being, when perpetrated by act eminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without a premeditated design to effect the death of any individual, or without a design to effect death, by a person engaged in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit, a felony either upon or affecting the person killed or otherwise, is murder in the third degree, and shall be punished,” etc. (Italics supplied.) (p. 45.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carte““No person * * * for the same offense shall be put twice in jeopardy of punishment * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.