521 So. 2d 783 - State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2017
18 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 419 So. 2d 475 - State v. Lanclos · 448 So. 2d 676 - State v. Captville · 424 So. 2d 1009 - State v. Quebedeaux · State v. Edwards
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant may not introduce his own self-serving exculpatory statements because they are hearsay.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“had granted defendant all of the compassion she was entitled to by returning a verdict of manslaughter instead of the charged offense of second degree murder. The court obviously considered that any lesser sentence would deprecate the seriousness of the offense under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hahn“Every confession, admission or declaration sought to be used against any one must be used in its entirety, so that the person to be affected thereby may have the benefit of any exculpation or explanation that the whole statement may afford.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.