Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
June 2003
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Howarth v. Northcott · Shippen v. Bailey · Lowery v. Fayette County Children's Bureau · Bickel v. Ford Motor Co. · Chamblee v. Chamblee
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The procedure is designed for the determination of one limited question — the right to immediate possession — and it would be a perversion of the procedure to allow other issues to be injected by whatever form of pleading.””
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.