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State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
3
states following
March 2013
most recently cited

66 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), State v. Miller (1987)

66 state decisions

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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 Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Ahearn · State v. Jones · State v. Strickland

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) The opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime; (2) the witness’ degree of attention; (3) the accuracy of the witness’ prior description; (4) the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation; and (5) the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “When a motion to suppress identification testimony is made, the trial judge must conduct a voir dire hearing and make findings of fact to support his conclusion of law and ruling as to the admissibility of the evidence. When the facts found are supported by competent evidence, they are binding on the appellate courts.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “In light of the overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt we cannot see how admission of this evidence could possibly have influenced the outcome of the trial.”
    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.