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796 So. 2d 959 - Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 380 So. 2d 1276 - Gathright v. State · 507 So. 2d 89 - Jenkins v. State · 556 So. 2d 699 - Bevill 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.

  1. “the jury will be the sole judge of the credibility of witnesses and the weight and worth of their testimony. . . . In other words, the credibility of witnesses is not for the reviewing court.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
    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.