Freeman v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss (1985), Loch Ridge Construction Company, Inc. v. Barra (1973)
205 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 31 Ala. App. 390 - Leach v. State · Sanders v. Scarvey · Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. v. Tucker · Crocker v. Lee · Leach 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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the factors upon which the trial court's determination of prejudice is made must necessarily vary from case to case, some of the factors which other courts have considered pertinent are: temporal remoteness of the matter inquired about, the ambiguity of the question propounded, the prospective juror's inadvertence or willfulness in falsifying or failing to answer, the failure of the juror to recollect, and the materiality of the matter inquired about.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. State · Dunaway v. State“"[P]arties have a right to have questions answered truthfully to enable them to exercise their discretion wisely in the use of their peremptory strikes. When jurors fail to answer questions correctly, a party is denied the exercise of that right. "Our courts have held that the concealment by a juror of information called for in voir dire examination need not be deliberate in order to justify reversal, for it may be unintentional, but insofar as the resultant prejudice to a party is concerned it is the same."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Following the trial, an investigation revealed that three of the jurors (including the foreperson) or members of their families had been involved in events that required an affirmative response, but none of them responded accordingly. One of the jurors failed to disclose that her husband had been a defendant in a lawsuit over”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williston v. Ard
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.