State v. Flonnory’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Conway (2006)
102 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 Chapman v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · State v. Laskey · State v. Anderson
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any criminal case in which the defendant’s motive or intent, the absence of mistake or accident on his part, or the defendant’s scheme, plan, or system in doing an act is material, any acts of the defendant which tend to show his motive or intent, the absence of mistake or accident on his part, or the defendant’s scheme, plan, or system in doing the act in question may be proved, whether they are contemporaneous with or prior or subsequent thereto, notwithstanding that such proof may show or tend to show the commission of another crime by the defendant.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans · State v. Gumm““Much confusion about R.C. 2945.59 might be avoided if it were observed that nowhere therein do the words ‘like’ or ‘similar’ appear. The statute permits the showing of ‘other acts’ when such other acts ‘tend to show’ certain things. If such other acts do in fact ‘tend to show’ any of those things, they are admissible notwithstanding they may not be ‘like’ or ‘similar’ to the crime charged.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“That is even more true [sic] in a case such as this where the other acts involve conduct similar or identical to the offense charged. In cases where evidence has been admitted for a very limited purpose and that evidence tends to show that Defendant has committed other criminal acts, the jury should be instructed that such evidence must not be considered by them as proof that defendant committed the crime charged.”
3 later decisions 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.