Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Green v. French (1998), Alvarado v. State (1995)
5 federal appellate · 33 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 Barefoot v. Estelle · Payne v. Tennessee · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Godfrey v. Georgia · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our review of the appropriateness of Appellant's sentence is guided by well established principles. We must grant substantial deference to the legislature's determination of sentencing limits. It is not for us to substitute our judgment for that of the sentencing court as to the appropriateness of a particular sentence. This Court has consistently held that where the punishment is within the statutory limits, the sentence will not be modified unless under all the facts and circumstances of the case it is so excessive as to shock the conscience of the Court. Appellant's sentence is well within the limits of 21 O.S.1991, § 701.9(A) since life without the possibility of parole is considered an intermediate level of punishment for the offense of First Degree Murder.... We find the evidence warranted the jury's decision to sentence Appellant to life without parole and therefore, we decline to modify his sentence. (internal citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cipriano v. State · Watts v. State“Argument or evidence is impermissible vouching only if the jury could reasonably believe that the prosecutor is indicating a personal belief in the witness' credibility, either through explicit personal assurances of the witness' veracity or by implicitly indicating that information not presented to the jury supports the witness' testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens v. State“... [y]ou may, in your discretion, consider sympathy as a factor in your deliberations and then determine whether or not you should give any weight to such factor under all the evidence you have heard in both the first and second stages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duckett 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.