Freer v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 213 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2014
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Tibbs v. Florida · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · United States v. Wilson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regarding the standard of review, conclusions of law by the district court are not binding on appellate courts and this court is free to substitute its judgment for the district court's on matters of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that it would set aside a verdict of guilty based upon insufficiency of evidence. Id. at 215. When the State requested that the trial judge treat the ruling as a motion for new trial so that the State could appeal the decision, the trial judge agreed to do so, but stated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I will grant the motion for a new trial, because I'm not satisfied the evidence proves guilt beyond every reasonable doubt . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.