Freeman v. Leapley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2018
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Strickland v. Washington · Griffin v. California · Lockhart v. Fretwell · State v. McBride · State v. Douglas
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot envision an advantage which could have been gained by withholding a request for th[ese] instruction[s.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Class“[O]ne must question the reasonableness of defense counsel's tactical decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Class“He did! Ricky Freeman said he steal car....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Class
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.