Scott & Light v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2012
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nevertheless, the judgment of that court must be reversed on this ground, because, if in fact no subpoena for Charley Johnson was ever issued, he could not be made a legal witness, and so bound to appear (Hatfield’s Gase, 3 Head, 233 ); and the defendants, in that view, committed no contempt of court in inducing him to leave this state and go into the state of Alabama to keep from testifying, It is unnecessary to determine whether the facts stated would support an indictment, as the matter before us is whether these facts would make out a case of contempt of court, this being a contempt proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sellers 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.