State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2010
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eggman v. Scurr · State v. Duncan · State v. Freeman · State v. Osmundson · People v. Ernst
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At common law an honest and reasonable belief in the existence of circumstances which, if true, would have made the act done innocent is a good defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In the Matter of Hew
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.