People v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 169 W. Va. 121 - State v. Persinger (1982), People v. Raffaelli (1982)
38 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brady v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Dunaway v. New York
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'We have long recognized that an appellate court is in no position to weigh the conflicting testimony presented to the trial court. A cold record is a poor substitute for live testimony.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Jordan · People v. Smith“An appellate court is in no position to weigh conflicting testimony presented to the trial court. On review, we are bound by the trial court's findings of fact where they are supported by adequate evidence in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Al-Yousif
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.