State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2015
5 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 State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 431 So. 2d 854 - State v. Cunningham · 428 So. 2d 468 - State v. Guajardo · 377 So. 2d 275 - State v. Bell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Only when the evidence ‘shielded’ by this statute is particularly relevant to the defendant’s guilt or innocence may the defendant’s right to set forth a defense override the prohibition in R.S. 15:498.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lanerie
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.