369 So. 2d 330 - Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2002
14 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. McHaney · Sowell v. State · 326 So. 2d 4 - O'DONNELL v. State · 316 So. 2d 537 - Owens v. State · Schmieder v. Leverenz
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that where a sentence is one that has been established by the legislature and is not on its face cruel and unusual, it will be sustained when attacked on grounds of due process, equal protection, or separation of power theories.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. State“that has been established by the legislature and is not on its face cruel and unusual ... will be sustained as against attacks based on due process, equal protection, separation of powers and legislative usurpation arguments,”
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.