Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2004
10 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · 68 Cal. 2d 375 - Maine v. Superior Court · Shapard v. State · 5 Okla. Crim. 522 - Ridley v. State · 34 Okla. Crim. 165 - Tapedo 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable possibility of prejudice [arising from] wide-spread pre-trial publicity, and its possible effect on the jury panel... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Coates v. State · Hale v. State“[i]n this case personalities were of such nature which, coupled with possible preconceived opinions imposed by the press, prejudice could have been easily caused against this defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. State“must make their own evaluations of the circumstances and not defer unduly to the discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. State
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.