State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably State v. Scott (2008), 33 Cal. 4th 254 - In Re Alva (2004)
2 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 14071 (§ 170101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Paul v. Davis · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Trop v. Dulles · Rummel v. Estelle
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The constitutionality of a statute is presumed. All doubts must be resolved in favor of its validity, and before the act may be stricken down it must clearly appear that the statute violates the constitution. In determining constitutionality, it is the court’s duty to uphold a statute under attack rather than defeat it. If there is any reasonable way to construe the statute as constitutionally valid, that should be done. A statute should not be stricken down unless the infringement of the superior law is clear beyond substantial doubt.’ [Citation omitted.]” State v. Scott, 265 Kan. 1, 4 , 961 P.2d 667 (1998) (quoting State v. Bryan, 259 Kan. 143 , Syl. ¶ 1, 910 P.2d 212 [1996]).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In order to comply with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 14071 (1994), most states amended their registration laws in 1997 and now provide for much greater public access than existed when we decided State v. Myers over 2 years ago. Many other states now allow broad public access to sex offender registration information similar to that permitted in Kansas. [Citations omitted.] Virtually every state now permits some public access, and all require sex offenders to register.” 265 Kan. at 11 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Chambers“While there may still be instances where the Freeman test should be applied, we will not apply it precisely here where the method of punishment, rather than the length of a sentence, is challenged as cruel or unusual. Neither this court nor the Supreme Court has applied such test outside of the length of sentence context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Riffe
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.