State v. Flower’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably State v. Newell (2006), State v. Spears (1996)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Michigan v. Mosley · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]y failing to at least clarify [the defendant's] intent, [the detective] did not `scrupulously honor' [the defendant's] right to silence, and the entire statement was inadmissible as a violation of Miranda.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boggs
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.