Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Geesa v. State (1991), Butler v. State (1989)
100 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 Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Ex Parte Prior · Ysasaga v. State · Culmore v. State
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. Thus, we have declined to accept the standard requested by appellant. In both direct and circumstantial evidence cases the reviewing court will look at all the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict or judgment. All cases containing the language that review of the evidence “in light of the presumption that the accused is innocent” are expressly overruled.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carlos v. State · Matson v. State
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.