Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2011
22 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 Edwards v. State · Phillips v. State · Johnson v. State · Reedy v. State · Smith 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to convict the defendant the jury *Page 717 was not required to accept as true every statement of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Court charges the jury that if the defendant shot the deceased under a bona fide belief that the defendant was in impending danger to life or limb, and that he had, under all circumstances, reasonable cause to believe that he was in imminent danger at the time the shooting was done, it would be immaterial whether there was such danger or not.””
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.