Flittie v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 967 · 1985
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Bradley v. Ohio (1990), State v. Ellis (1985)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While Flittie may have been constrained within the penitentiary walls, he was not forced to remain in the visitors’ room with Harris. Thus, the imprisonment did not produce a coerced statement. ... Flittie agreed to see Harris of his free will, and he was equally free to terminate the conversation at his pleasure. That the statement was secretly-recorded does not itself vitiate the consent. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“So in this case if you should find beyond a reasonable doubt that Tommy Edward Downs was a principal and Roger George Flittie an accessory before the fact to the commission of the murder, the defendant Flittie would be guilty thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Flittie v. Solem“'may constitute harmless error when there remains overwhelming independent evidence as to the defendant's guilt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.