United States v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 569 · 1974
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Cox v. Administrator United States Steel & Carnegie (1994), United States v. Redwine (1983)
35 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Costello v. United States · Grunewald v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · Ohio v. Kentucky
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable mind might fairly conclude guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision 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.