Flowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Boykin v. State · Stoker v. State · Fernandez v. State · Flowers 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlawfully appropriate^] property ... in the custody of a law enforcement agency ... and explicitly 2 represented by a law enforcement officer, Special Texas Ranger Dick Chenault to the Defendant as being stolen, and the Defendant did appropriate the property believing it was stolen by another....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flowers 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.