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← 409 SO2D 933 - Scott v. State

Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
December 1992
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Blakeney v. State · 41 Ala. App. 351 - Johnson v. State · Milam v. State · 56 Ala. App. 234 - Latham v. State · Phelps 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"[T]he alleged thief, at some moment, must have obtained complete independent and absolute possession and control of the item, adverse to the rights of the owner. [Citation omitted.] If the possession is imperfect in any degree , or if the alleged thief's control is qualified by any circumstance, however slight, the severance is incomplete and the act is only an attempt." (Emphasis in original.)”
    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.