Flatt v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
3
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Singles v. United States · Harris v. Commonwealth · Aycock v. United States
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.
““The constitutional right of the defendants to be confronted by the witnesses in the trial of a criminal case imposes no obligation on the government to call any specific persons as witnesses. . . .” (p. 613.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bailey
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.