State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2025
18 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · Belisle v. Anzivino · Ansari v. Pahlavi
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he primary difference between larceny and breach of trust is that in common-law larceny, possession of the property stolen is obtained unlawfully, while in breach of trust, the possession is obtained lawfully”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parris“larceny after trust, which includes all of the elements of larceny or in common parlance, stealing, except the unlawful taking in the beginning”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parris
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.