State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Bolton (1995), State v. Trostle (1997)
6 federal appellate · 56 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Colorado v. Connelly · Beck v. Alabama · Enmund v. Florida
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of one fact to establish two aggravating circumstances is proper, provided the court, in balancing the aggravating and mitigating factors does not weigh the [fact] twice. Because it is but one fact, it cannot be weighed twice, even though it satisfied two separate aggravating factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlson
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.