Freeman v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 1252 · 1992
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. McGuire (1997), Prou v. United States (1999)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. California
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In passing on federal constitutional questions, the state courts and the lower federal courts have the same responsibility and occupy the same position The Supreme Court of the United States has appellate jurisdiction over federal questions arising either in state or federal proceedings, and by reason of the supremacy clause the decisions of that court on national law have binding effect on all lower courts whether state or federal. On the other hand, because lower federal courts exercise no appellate jurisdiction over state tribunals, decisions of lower federal courts are not conclusive on state courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is highly unlikely that anyone other than the defendant could rebut the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Comments by the prosecutor on the state of the evidence that may indirectly refer to the defendant's silence ... have not been the subject of direct Supreme Court guidance.”
2 later decisions 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.