Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
August 1990
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. State · Bruner v. State · Atnip v. State · Mills v. State · Hager 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 purpose of this duty is to insure against surprise on the part of the defense and to allow time for the defense to be heard prior to the information being placed before the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens 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.