State v. Scullin’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1980
6 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 State v. Smith
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the fact that the instruction tells the jury that the defendant, acting alone or with others then and there present and acting with him, did not make it any broader than the information [which charged the defendant alone with the commission of the crime] . . . It is approved practice in criminal prosecutions, where two or more persons are engaged in the commission of crime, to prosecute them jointly or severally . . . and where only one is prosecuted, it may be shown that others were present, participating in the criminal act, although not included in the indictment or information, and it is not thought that an instruction upon the same lines as in the case at bar is subject to the objection that it is broader than the information."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morgan
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.