Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2016
16 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 United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · In re Disbarment of Kleindienst
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“outcome turns on whether the delay violates the fundamental conception of justice, decency and fair play embodied in the Bill of Rights and fourteenth amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“balance the demonstrable reasons for delay against the gravity of the particular prejudice on a case-by-case basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is important to recognize that hair comparisons do not constitute a basis for positive personal identification”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crawford 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.