Flanagan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Pellegrini v. State (2001), Valerio v. Crawford (2002)
2 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 United States v. Young · Darden v. Wainwright · Hance v. Zant · Deutscher v. State · Collier v. State of Nevada
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a life is at stake, we will consider the allegations of misconduct as if there had been compliance with the contemporaneous objection rule”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if they wish to be deemed `moral' and `caring,' then they must approach their duties in anger and give the community what it `needs.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkins v. State“At the sentencing phase, it is most important that the jury not be influenced by passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor.”
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.