Scott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably State v. Green (1973), State v. Baldwin (1978)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 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 v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Tatum v. United States · United States v. Shannon · Degree v. United States · Siegman v. District of Columbia
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dangerous in its ordinary use as contemplated by its design and construction,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“carry[ing] either openly or concealed on or about [one's] person ... any deadly or dangerous weapon capable of being so concealed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“drastically tighten the ban on carrying dangerous weapons”
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.