574 So. 2d 448 - State v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2013
23 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence is either direct or circumstantial. Direct evidence is evidence which if believed, proves a fact. Circumstantial or indirect evidence is evidence which if believed, proves a fact and from that fact, you may logically and reasonably conclude that another fact exists. You cannot find a defendant guilty solely on circumstantial evidence, unless the facts proved by the evidence exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even if the proffered testimony had been relevant, it would not satisfy the codal requirements for character evidence. Under C.Ev. art. 405, a person's character must usually be proved by reputation, not specific acts.... Article 405 does provide for the admission of specific instances of conduct, but only when a character trait is an essential element of a charge or defense, such as in a prosecution for defamation or in the defense of entrapment; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A. Manslaughter is: (1) A homicide which would be murder under either Article 30 (first degree murder) or Article 30.1 (second degree murder), but the offense is committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self-control and cool reflection.”
1 later decision 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.