State v. Flaherty’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
July 1988
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. McKeough · Barringer v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Rebel v. Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co. · People v. La Pella · Knowlton 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. [a] person commits a crime only if he engages in voluntary conduct, including a voluntary act, or the voluntary omission to perform an act of which he is physically capable. 3. Possession is voluntary conduct only if the possessor knowingly procured or received the thing possessed or was aware of his control thereof for a sufficient period to have been able to terminate his possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myrick
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.