Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · Cooper v. Oklahoma · David W. McKay v. Texas
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a criminal defense attorney attests to his or her own ineffectiveness in an effort to obtain relief for a capital post-conviction applicant, that affidavit will be thoroughly scrutinized and will rarely, if ever, be solely relied upon to support an allegation of deficient performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slaughter v. State“could not have been raised in a direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Gibson
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.