Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2018
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]emoval for cause of even one venire member who has conscientious scruples against the death penalty but is nevertheless able to set aside those scruples and consider the penalty of death and is therefore eligible to serve on the jury is error of constitutional magnitude not subject to harmless error analysis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“this Court traditionally defers to the impressions of the trial court who can better assess whether a potential juror would be unable to fulfill his or her oath.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · BROWN v. STATE“To support a finding of this aggravating circumstance there must be a predicate crime, separate from the murder, for which the defendant seeks to avoid arrest or prosecution.”), habeas relief granted on other grounds in Scott v. Mullin, 303 F.3d 1222 (10th Cir.2002); see also cases listed in note 23. In Hawkins v. State, 1994 OK CR 83 , ¶37, 891 P.2d 586, 596 , we noted that the predicate offense must be”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell 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.