Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2003
15 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 Hammett v. State · Perry v. State · Vital v. State · Holcomb v. State · 135 Tex. Crim. 170 - Meeks 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court shall allow testimony to be introduced at any time before the argument of a cause is concluded, if it appears that it is necessary to a due administration of justice.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““But irrespective of its weight, or of its probative value or cumulative character, or the issue upon which it is offered, . if the evidence was admissible and offered before the reading of the charge and prior to arguments, unless it appears its introduction would have impeded the trial or interfered with the due and orderly administration of justice, it will be reversible error to refuse the request to reopen for its receipt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. the witness is present and ready to testify; 2. the request to re-open has been made before the charge was read to the jury and final arguments were made; and 3. the judge has some indication of what the testimony would be, and is satisfied that the testimony is material and bears directly on the main issues in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.