State v. Flittie’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
6 federal appellate · 13 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Illinois v. Vitale
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could not have rationally grounded its verdict on an issue other than whether [Flittie] * * * had aided or abetted Downs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flittie v. Solem · Flittie v. Solem“evident that the jury in the first trial convicted defendant on the conspiracy charge based on his post-murder conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flittie v. Solem · Flittie v. Solem“If a defendant has been convicted of two or more offenses before judgment on either, the judgment may be that the imprisonment on either one may commence at the expiration of the imprisonment upon any other of the offenses. [SL 1978 ch. 185 § 17.1.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arguello
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.