State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2019
24 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 Harris v. State · Register v. State · Berry v. State · Parker v. Mooneyham · Darsey v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he proper procedure ... is for the trial court and counsel to review the verdict prior to its publication in open court, and if the verdict is not proper in that it finds the defendant guilty of an offense with regard to which the trial court did not instruct the jury, the trial court should return the jury for further deliberation with direction to return a verdict within the range of the instructions originally given to it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is not reversible error to fail to charge in the exact language requested when the charge given adequately covers the correct legal principles." [Cit.] "It has long been held that under a proper interpretation of OCGA § 17-9-2, `it is the province of the court to construe the law applicable in the trial of a criminal case, and of the jury to apply the law so construed to the facts in evidence. While the impaneled jurors are made absolutely and exclusively judges of the facts in the case, they are, in this sense only, judges of the law.' The court is responsible for the correct exposition of the law and `in the trial of criminal cases it is the duty of the jury to take the law from the court, as it is their duty to take the evidence from the witnesses.'" [Cits] Inasmuch as the instruction given by the trial court was a `proper interpretation' of the statutory basis of appellant's requested charge, it was not error for the trial court to fail to charge the legal concept now at issue in the language requested by appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“Jurors have a duty to take the law from the trial court’s instructions and apply it to the facts which they determine from the evidence adduced at trial... [and] it is the duty of the trial court not only to tell the jury what the law is, but to insist that they apply it and either render a verdict on some issue submitted or else make a mistrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newsome v. State
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.