State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Mims v. Mims (1982), State v. LeDuc (1982)
64 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 Trammel v. United States · Funk v. United States · Hawkins v. United States · Blau v. United States · Francis v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his holding allows marriage partners to speak freely to each other in confidence without fear of being thereafter confronted with the confession in litigation. However, by confining the spousal disqualification to testimony involving “confidential communications” within the marriage, we prohibit the accused spouse from employing the common law rule solely to inhibit the administration of justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]e have said that a spouse's testimony is ... incompetent if the substance of the testimony concerns a confidential communication.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“prompted by the affection, confidence, and loyalty engendered by”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.