State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 103 N.C. App. 1 - State v. West (1991), 139 N.C. App. 706 - State v. Aldridge (2000)
46 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 State v. Cutler · State v. Etheridge · State v. Witherspoon · State v. Price · State v. Primes
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony is exclusively a matter for the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In reviewing challenges to the sufficiency of evidence, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of all reasonable inferences. Contradictions and discrepancies do not warrant dismissal of the case but are for the jury to resolve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Braswell“may be established by either actual, physical force or by constructive force in the form of fear, fright, or coercion.”
1 later decision 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.