Flamer v. State of DE’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Strickland v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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.
“shall consider . . . any mitigating circumstances or aggravating circumstances otherwise authorized by law and any of the following statutory aggravating circumstances which may be supported by the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Sanders“instructions did not place particular emphasis on the role of statutory aggravating circumstances in the jury's ultimate decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brown v. Sanders“any possible impact cannot fairly be regarded as a constitutional defect in the sentencing process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Sanders
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.