State v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably State v. Warren (1990), State v. Barnes (1993)
32 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 · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) The opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime; 2) the witness’ degree of attention; 3) the accuracy of the witness’ prior description; 4) the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation; and 5) the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]efore admitting challenged in-court identification testimony, the trial court should conduct a voir dire, find facts, and determine the admissibility of the testimony. Failure to conduct a voir dire will be deemed harmless where the evidence is clear and convincing that the witness’s in-court identification of defendant originated with the witness’s observation of defendant at the time of the crime and not from an impermissibly suggestive pretrial identification procedure.”
2 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.