Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Walker v. State (1986), McCarty v. State (1988)
3 federal appellate · 35 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. State · Irvin v. State · Cobbs v. State · Ray v. State · 33 Okla. Crim. 100 - Nail 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining whether the sentence is excessive, we will consider the entire record, including improper matter received without objection, and, where justice requires, will modify the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson v. State“since we are unable to conclude `that their combined effect was so prejudicial as to adversely affect the fundamental fairness and impartiality of the proceedings',”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glass 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.