Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Monts v. State (1964), State v. Adkisson (1994)
29 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 Sherrill v. State · King v. State · Dykes v. State · Mallette v. Mercury Outboard Supply Company · Shelly 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-settled rule in this state that a defendant cannot be convicted upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice in his crime; and this is true in sex cases even where the accomplice is a child of such tender years as to be incapable of consenting to such crime. Sherrill v. State, 204 Tenn. 427 321 S.W.2d 811, 814-816 . “If the female consents to the crime of incest, she is an accomplice, and a conviction cannot be had upon her unsupported testimony. But, of course, if she did not voluntarily consent, as in the case of rape, force, threats, fraud or undue influence, she is not an accomplice. Shelly v. State, 95 Tenn. 152, 155 , 31 S.W. 492 , 493, 49 Am.St.Rep. 926 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henley v. State““* * * (T)he female in the case before us said she had been regularly having sexual intercourse with defendant ‘all through the years’ — ‘every week’ for ‘the last two years’ (italics ours), and she had never told anyone about this, not even her mother. It seems utterly impossible that such a thing could have happened, unless she acted voluntarily, consented to it, and concealed it. Upon her evidence, we think there is no reasonable doubt that she was an accomplice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The degree of evidence which shall be deemed sufficient to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice is for the determination of the jury. The law is complied with if there is some other evidence fairly tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime, so that his conviction will not rest entirely upon the evidence of the accomplice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pennington 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.