State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Nugent (1955), State v. Doughtie (1953)
34 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. . Thomas · State v. . Morgan · State v. . Dilliard · State v. . Jones · State v. . Johnson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of setting forth the name of the person who is the subject on which an offense is committed is to identify the particular fact or transaction on which the indictment is founded, so that the accused may have the benefit of one acquittal or conviction if accused a second time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t common law it [was] of vital importance that the name of the person against whom the offense was directed be stated with exactitude.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.