State v. Flattmann’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1958
19 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 State v. Scruggs · State v. Desselles · State v. Hataway · State v. Cormier · State v. Irvine
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our opinion is that the title of this act is broad enough to cover the provisions of sections 3 and 5, to the effeet that a person who kills another by the grossly negligent use of a vehicle may he prosecuted either for manslaughter or for involuntary homicide, according to the judgment of the district attorney.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter
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.