State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1991
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Patton v. United States · Thompson v. State of Utah · In re Brown · State v. Simons · State v. Baxter
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant in a criminal action for felony may intelligently and affirmatively, and with the consent of the prosecuting attorney and of the trial court, waive his right to trial by a jury of twelve persons and consent to trial by a lesser number.” (Syl. 1.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ricks · State v. Burnett““The defendant and prosecuting attorney, with the assent of the court, may submit the trial to the court, except in cases of felonies. All other trials shall be by jury, to be selected, summoned and returned as prescribed by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burnett
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.