Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2004
8 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 Agee v. State · 360 So. 2d 1244 - Miles v. State · 348 So. 2d 434 - Holt v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the officers who were present when the accused was questioned and when the confession was signed, or give an adequate reason for the absence of any such witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is clear from the above cited cases and others that the trial judge erroneously overruled appellant's motion to suppress. We would hope that all trial judges and all prosecuting attorneys will soon become acquainted with this principle of law that has existed for a number of years and govern themselves accordingly. [ 382 So.2d at 1093 ].”
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.