Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2023
3 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 Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Hill v. Lundin & Associates, Inc. · 35 Ill. App. 3d 703 - Dezort v. Village of Hinsdale · 423 So. 2d 674 - Naylor v. La. Dept. of Public Highways · Robertson v. Penn
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prison authorities owe a duty to use reasonable care to protect inmates from harm and that this duty extends to protecting inmates from self-inflicted injury. This duty is not absolute, but depends upon the circumstances of the particular case.”
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.