Freedman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Freedman v. Maryland (1965), DiPino v. Davis (1999)
4 district · 32 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 Lovell v. City of Griffin · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory · Staub v. City of Baxley
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.
“The guaranty of freedom of speech and press ordained in Art. 40 would appear to be, in legal effect, substantially similar to that enunciated in the First Amendment, and it is significant that Art. 40 has been treated by this Court as in pari materia with the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege.””
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.