State v. Freeland’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith (1991), United States v. Cox (1985)
4 federal appellate · 27 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause prohibits selected enforcement ‘based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification_to avoid prosecution for a criminal offense on equal protection grounds, a defendant must show that the government exercised selective enforcement of the law upon an invidious discriminatory basis.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Luna
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.