411 So. 2d 1068 - State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Williams (2001), 448 So. 2d 645 - State v. Davis (1984)
1 federal appellate · 40 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · 344 So. 2d 1024 - State v. Cox · State v. Burnham · 406 So. 2d 1355 - State v. Nix · 369 So. 2d 115 - State v. Boniface
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). Criminal statutes are to be strictly construed”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fussell · State v. Street“at certain proscribed times. The defendants argued that finding them both guilty of six violations of the statute, when in fact only two existed, subjected them to triple punishment for each of the two violations. The Supreme Court found that the word”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fussell · State v. Kujawa“that if the legislative aim had been to make the taking of each individual deer an offense, it would have clearly expressed that intent, and to construe the statutory provisions otherwise would permit prosecutors to create multiple offenses without a legislative grant of authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fussell
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.