Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably State v. Fleming (1986), 171 W. Va. 342 - State v. Richey (1982)
32 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. Lovasco · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. J Kowalski · Gammel v. State · Freeman v. State · Harris v. State
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Apparently the court and the prosecutor assumed that because there is no statute of limitations for murder, charges can be filed at any time. ... Just because the statute of limitations does not run on a murder charge does not mean that a person can be brought to trial at any time. The prosecution cannot delay simply for the purpose of gaining a tactical advantage over the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ligon v. Rees““Since Scott was able to show prejudice to his defense unless the state can come forward with a satisfactory reason for the delay the charges should be dismissed.” It is the Court’s conclusion that the state has presented a satisfactory reason for the delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conte v. State“because there is no statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ligon v. Rees
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.