369 So. 2d 46 - Flanagan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985), 607 So. 2d 369 - Hull v. State (1992)
41 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 364 So. 2d 397 - Jacks v. State · Fincher v. State · Garner v. State · 354 So. 2d 1172 - Conley v. State · Huckabee 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whether a witness is an accomplice may be a question of law or fact. It becomes a question of law only where the court is clearly convinced by a preponderance of the evidence that the witness could have been indicted and convicted of the same charge for which the defendant is on trial and that the witness freely participated in the crime. Where there is no conflict in the testimony, the question of whether a witness is an accomplice is a question of law for determination by the trial court. . . . Where a witness denies participation in the crime, the issue of his being an accomplice is a disputed fact presenting a question for the jury despite the additional fact that the witness previously had been convicted for the identical crime for which the defendant is on trial. . . ." Flanagan v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 369 So.2d 46 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even if it [the blow] was only a partial cause accelerating death, the defendant is nevertheless responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] witness may not testify to the uncommunicated mental operation of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGahee 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.