Flournoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Chavez v. State (1989), S.D.W., Matter Of (1991)
147 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 Johnson v. Louisiana · Wilson v. State · Griffin v. State · Sewell v. State · McCravy 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person commits an offense if, with specific intent to commit an offense, he does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sorce v. State · Thornton, Gregory“the Defendant, heretofore on or about May 30, 1990 did then and there unlawfully, intentionally, and knowingly, with the specific intent to commit the offense of illegal investment, do an act, to-wit: negotiate for the purchase of over four hundred grams of cocaine and display money for said purchase, which amounted to more than mere preparation that tended to but failed to effect the commission of the offense intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Onofre v. State“The relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez 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.