State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Scott v. Rizzo (1981), State v. Smith (1979)
73 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 Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · State v. Vogenthaler · State v. Dorsey · Smith 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court is to follow precedents of the Supreme Court; it is not free to abolish instructions approved by the Supreme Court. (Citations omitted.) ****** This court is bound by the Supreme Court order approving the challenged instructions; we have no authority to set the instructions aside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poore v. State“when a uniform instruction is provided for the elements of a crime [or] a defense * * * the uniform instruction must be used * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Privett
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.