State v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably State v. Royal (1981), State v. Simmons (1997)
45 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Brown v. Illinois · Malloy v. Hogan · Lego v. Twomey
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] statement which is shown to have been freely and voluntarily made without coercion, either physical or psychological, may be thereby purged of any stigma of illegality and the statement is admissible.” ' “Thus, in Missouri, we do not exclude a confession merely because it followed an illegal arrest but retain the test of volun-tariness under the totality of the circumstances as controlling in determining the admissibility of a confession which has been preceded by an illegal arrest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins
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.