Commonwealth v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Azar (2002), Commonwealth v. Degro (2000)
2 district · 48 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 McGinnis v. Hadix · Patterson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Kansas v. Colorado · Commonwealth v. Mello
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a witness's demeanor, motive for testifying, and believability, provided that such remarks are based on the evidence, or fair inferences drawn from it, and are not based on the prosecutor's personal beliefs.”
4 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.