Scales v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1993
18 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 Mitchell v. State · Eiland v. State · Ex parte Nettles · McHugh v. State · Sylvester 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Murderers sometimes provoke an enemy or intended victim to assault them, that, under the protection which the law is supposed to furnish them, they may wreak vengeance upon him, who by this contrivance is made to appear to he the aggressor. A homicide thus perpetrated is a most atrocious murder in the first degree.” Mitchell v. State, 60 Ala. 26 ; Ex parte Nettles, 58 Ala. 268 ; Scales v. State, 96 Ala. 75 , 11 South. 121 .”
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.