Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2000
3 federal appellate · 5 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 United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Central Railroad v. Director, Division of Tax Appeals of the Department of the Treasury · Kephart v. Kephart · Truslow v. Truslow · John Leo Hurst, Sr. v. Dorothea M. Hurst
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even then appellant could have sought a suspension of the commitment by making an appropriate showing, and he is still free to do so. Hurst v. Hurst, 100 U.S.App.D.C. 77 , 242 F.2d 229 (1957). But we cannot consider the existence of an excuse for failure to comply with the order until such excuse is first presented to and passed upon by the trial court.” (Emphasis added.) 5”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the order of support was entered, appellant was bound to obey it until it was modified by the court. * * * If appellant felt that because of physical disability, or for any other reason, he was not able to comply with the order, he should have applied to the court for a modification of the order. * * * This he did not do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes v. Gilpin
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.