State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. McCollum (1993), State v. Brown (1987)
68 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 Taylor v. Louisiana · Williams v. Florida · Smith v. Texas · State v. Britt · State v. Britt
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is part of the established tradition in the use of juries as instruments of public justice that the jury be a body truly representative of the community. Permitting the jury to act as the voice and conscience of the community is required because the very reason for the jury system is to temper the harshness of the law with the commonsense judgment of the community. In a criminal case such as this, therefore, the essential feature of a jury obviously lies in the interposition between the accused and his accuser of the commonsense judgment of a group of laymen, and in the community participation and shared responsibility that results from that group's determination of guilt or innocence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he State must not ask the jury 'to lend an ear to the community rather than a voice,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here’s a lot of public sentiment at this point against drinking and driving, causing accidents on the highway. And, you know, you read these things and you hear these things and you think to yourself, “My God, they ought to do something about that.” Well, ladies and gentlemen, the buck stops here. You twelve judges in Cumberland County have become the “they”.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.