Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1973
15 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 Miller v. State · Johnson v. State · Thornton v. State · Long v. State · Smith 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state certainly has no interest and the defendant has no right to introduce into the jury box unfit persons. It is the duty of the court to guard against their introduction.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leith 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.