State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Bell (1984), State v. Wortham (1987)
56 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 State v. Smith · State v. Bell · State v. Tippett · State v. Wilson · State v. Joyner
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... in order to carry its burden, it was necessary for the state to present sufficient evidence to permit the jury to find first, that when defendant assaulted the prosecutrix he intended to engage in forcible, nonconsensual intercourse with her and second, that in the ordinary and likely course of events his assaultive acts would result in the commission of a rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“words spoken by the defendant..., [i]n light of [the victim's] testimony that she was fully clothed and in no way encouraged the defendant, ... are at best ambiguous and ... are virtually meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here was nothing in defendant's dress or demeanor to suggest an intent to commit rape”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.