State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2015
12 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold · Griffin v. Hilke · 436 So. 2d 471 - State v. Sutton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any act of the victim which manifests in the mind of a reasonable person a present intention on his part to kill or do great bodily harm.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“are not separate elements of the crime of manslaughter but are mitigating factors in the nature of a defense which exhibit a degree of culpability less than that present when a homicide is committed without them. State v. Lombard, 486 So.2d 106 (La.1986); State v. Scott, 31,379 (La.App.2d Cir.10/28/98), 720 So.2d 415 , writ denied, 99-0170 (La.05/14/99), 741 So.2d 664 ; State v. Stewart, 26,168 (La.App.2d Cir.08/17/94), 641 So.2d 1086 , writ denied, 94-2363 (La.01/13/95), 648 So.2d 1337 . A defendant is required to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he acted in”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mitchell“act within the meaning of article 404 is”
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.