Scopes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1971
21 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These laws permit the trial court, by proper order, to project his control over the record for a time after adjournment not exceeding the statutory limitations. When the time thus fixed, however, has expired, the power of the court is at an end, as it formerly ended with the adjournment of the term.””
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.