State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
November 1977
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Spano v. People of the State of New York · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee · State v. Hills · State v. Henry
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisprudence of this State is settled that the law presumes every man is sane. State v. Augustine, 241 La. 761 , 131 So.2d 56 , * * * The law places the burden upon the accused to establish by a clear preponderance of the evidence that he is so mentally deficient that he lacks capacity to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him and to assist in conducting his defense in a rational manner. * * * ” State v. Scott, 243 La. 1 , 141 So.2d 389 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gregoire
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.