State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2002
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Burks v. United States · United States v. Tateo · State v. Wood · State v. Gilmore · State v. Betts
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, in the instant case, [presumably the second trial] the identification testimony of Gruis is sufficient to let a jury decide the issue and the fingerprint is merely added proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Jones“defendant was clean shaven and the robber had a beard.” Id. at 765. While that circumstance made his identification at the first trial “uncertain”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Jones
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.