Flewallen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Drollinger v. State (1980), Norton v. State (1980)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 California v. Green · Nelson v. O'NEIL · School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education · Patterson v. State · Ortiz v. State
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While an expert opinion as to the defendant's mental condition by a person not available for cross-examination is not admissible testimony, such report may be used as a basis of a testifying expert's opinion as to the defendant's sanity if it is in a form that he would normally use in making his professional evaluation. Smith v. State, (1972) 259 Ind. 187 , 285 N.E.2d 275 , cert. denied 409 U.S. 1129 , 93 S.Ct. 951 , 385 L.Ed.2d 261 (1973). It was improper for the court to permit Doctor Pontace to read the entire report including Doctor Tullen's diagnosis."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sills v. State
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.