Scott v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2022
11 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 Laman v. McCord · Vittitow v. Burnett · Baxter County Newspapers, Inc. v. Medical Staff of Baxter General Hospital
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) It is the specific intent of this section that the following shall not be deemed to be made open to the public under the provisions of this chapter: (7) Unpublished memoranda, working papers, and correspondence of . . . the Attorney General[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. Mars
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.