Freeman v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 113 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. City of Louisville · Garner v. State of Louisiana Briscoe · Florida-Georgia Television Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Arnold Sanchez Fernandez v. John H. Klinger · Alberto Gonzales Barquera, Jr. v. People of the State of California
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the charges against petitioner were so totally devoid of evidentiary support as to render his conviction unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.