State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably State v. Caenen (1984), 202 W. Va. 556 - Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Kupec (1998)
25 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 United States v. California · State v. Zeigler · State v. Russell · State v. Alvey · State v. Stakes
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Sheila Hoffner [the beneficiary of the trust] was not Freeman’s client, respondent’s powers were to be used in a fiduciary capacity by the terms of the trust and we find his actions are as reprehensible as if he had been handling the money of a client, to whom he would owe the same fiduciary responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Burton““Maintain complete records of all funds, securities, and other properties of a client coming into the possession of the lawyer and render appropriate accounts to his client regarding them.” 230 Kan. cxxvii .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pringle““In imposing discipline, we must consider not only the evidence of wrongdoing but also any aggravating or mitigating circumstances.” 229 Kan. at 644 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Neuschwander
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.