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← 659 SO2D 158 - Freeman v. State

Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1998
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 40 Ala. App. 45 - Orr v. State · Ashford v. McKee · 574 So. 2d 921 - King v. State · Smith v. State · 19 Ala. App. 113 - Gidley 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t is not improper for the trial court to urge upon the jury the duty of attempting to reach an agreement or verdict as long as it does not coerce or suggest which way the verdict should be returned.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “repeated admonitions to the minority on the jury that it should conform with the majority clearly suggested which way the verdict should be returned”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “not contain even `the least appearance of duress or coercion.'”
    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.