Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2010
12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 147th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Geesa v. State · Beardsley v. State · Johnson v. State · Ex Parte Prior
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about [the] 25th day of July 2007 in Galveston County, Texas, ROYCE CLYDE ZEIG-LER, II, did then and there intentionally or knowingly cause the death of Riley Ann Sawyers, an individual under six years of age, by throwing the said Riley Ann Sawyers onto the floor or by holding the said Riley Ann Sawyers under water or by holding the said Riley Ann Sawyers’ mouth and nose against a pillow or by a manner and means unknown to the Grand Jury and you further believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on said date in said County and State, the Defendant KIMBERLY DAWN TRNOR AKA KIMBERLY DAWN ZEIGLER, acting with the intent to promote or assist the commission of Capital Murder by ROYCE CLYDE ZEIGLER, II, solicited or encouraged or directed or aided or attempted to aid the said ROYCE CLYDE ZEIGLER, II, in intentionally or knowingly causing the death of Riley Ann Sawyers, an individual under six years of age, by the said ROYCE CLYDE ZEIGLER, II, throwing the said Riley Ann Sawyers onto the floor or by holding the said Riley Ann Sawyers under water or by holding the said Riley Ann Sawyers’ mouth and nose against a pillow or by a manner and means unknown to the Grand Jury, then you will find the Defendant KIMBERLY DAWN TRENOR AKA KIMBERLY DAWN ZEIGLER guilty of Capital Murder....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trenor 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.