Freeman v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2011
8 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 Webb v. Commonwealth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he [trial] judge ruled on all points raised in the petition. The [trial] Judge saw fit to state reasons for rejecting two of the alleged grounds for granting the writ, and he saw fit to refrain from stating reasons for rejecting the other ... alleged grounds. He may have refrained because he thought the reasons self-evident. In any event, he was not required to give his reasons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was denied a full and complete hearing because the [trial] judge ruled on only the first two questions raised by [his habeas corpus] petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“between failure to rule and failure to announce reasons for a ruling,”
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.