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← 945 A2D 1103 - Scarborough v. State

Scarborough v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Weatherford v. Bursey · State v. Parker · United States v. Camper · United States v. Hammerman · United States v. Brye

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As every first year law student learns, one of the central tenets of contract law is that a contract must be reasonably definite in its terms to be enforceable.”
    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.