State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Buckley v. State (2002), Bunch v. State (2001)
41 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 Scherrer v. State · Lovell v. State · Sparrow v. State · Mickelberry's Food Products Co. v. Haeussermann · Davis 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under [Freeman’s] construction, he could possibly avoid the habitual sentence enhancement provisions merely by asking for a bench trial, but he would subject himself to such enhancement provisions if he demanded a trial by jury. No such Hobson’s choice was intended by the General Assembly’s passage of these statutory provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled that it is for the legislative branch ... to determine the kind of conduct that constitutes a crime and the nature and extent of punishment which may be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris 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.