State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably State v. Gerald (1988), State v. Clausell (1990)
30 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 Wenzler v. Pitchess · Kelley v. United States · State v. Wilbely · State v. Hipplewith · State v. Laws
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judge's charge, at times, failed to distinguish explicitly between separate defendants and separate indictments, thereby creating the potential for uncertainty, we hold that the charge read in its entirety avoided that possibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he danger of prejudice by association underlies all joint trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In assaying the measure of success in the jury charge,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Clausell
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.