State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), State v. Brown (1987)
104 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 Pointer v. United States · State v. Jerrett · State v. Greer · State v. Riera · State v. Tippett
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plain and concise factual statement in each count which, without allegations of an evidentiary nature, asserts facts supporting every element of a criminal offense and the defendant's commission thereof with sufficient precision clearly to apprise the defendant ... of the conduct which is the subject of the accusation,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]acilitating the commission of any felony[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“OFFENSE: FIRST DEGREE STATUTORY SEXUAL OFFENSE OFFENSE IN VIOLATION OF: g.s. 14-27.7A THE JURORS FOR THE STATE upon their oath present that . . . the defendant named above unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did engage in a sex offense with [D.S.], a child under the age of 13 years.”
3 later decisions 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.