State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Gunby (2006), State v. McCaslin (2011)
123 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 Hamilton v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · State v. Pabst · State v. Lumley · State v. Wilkins · State v. Aikins
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) the nature of the weapon used; (2) lack of provocation; (3) the defendant's conduct before and after the killing; (4) threats and declarations of the defendant before and during the occurrence; and (5) the dealing of lethal blows after the deceased was felled and rendered helpless.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hilyard · State v. Cook“Premeditation is the process of thinking about a proposed killing before engaging in homicidal conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kane · State v. Hilyard““[w]e are required to consider all the instructions together, read as a whole, and not to isolate any one instruction. If the instructions properly and fairly state the law as applied to the facts of the case, and a jury could not reasonably have been misled by them, the instructions do not constitute reversible error even if they are in some way erroneous. [Citation omitted.]” State v. Mitchell, 269 Kan. 349, 355 , 7 P.3d 1135 (2000).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.