Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 536 So. 2d 202 - Tingle v. State (1988), 572 So. 2d 1346 - Nowitzke v. State (1990)
37 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 Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Lane v. State · 387 So. 2d 338 - State v. Tait
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`whether there is a reasonable ground to believe the defendant may be incompetent, not whether he is incompetent.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding and whether he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here are no `fixed or immutable signs that always' require a competency hearing.”
2 later decisions 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.