Commonwealth v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · Miller v. Alabama
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legally and constitutionally different from crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.