Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Bangs v. State (1999), Williams v. State (1999)
78 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 Williams v. State · Strawhacker v. State · Strickland v. State · Caldwell v. State · Puckett 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits rape if he or she engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with another person:. . . By forcible compulsion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“physical force or a threat, express or implied, of death or physical injury to or kidnapping of any person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the act is against the will of the party upon whom the act was committed.”
2 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.