State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Tibbetts (2001), State v. Lott (2002)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Furman v. Georgia · Whitley v. Albers · Trop v. Dulles · Wilkerson v. Utah · State v. Berry
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mental illness is a medical disease. Every year we learn more about it and the way it manifests itself in the mind of the sufferer. At this time, we do not and cannot know what is going on in-the mind of a person with mental illness. As a society, we have always treated those with mental illness differently from those without. In the interest of human dignity, we must continue to do so.... I believe that executing a convict with a severe mental illness is a cruel. and unusual punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Corcoran 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.