Nelson v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1972 · most notably Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Case (1910), Johnson v. Culver (1888)
25 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 Pennsylvania Company v. Roy · Brown v. Swineford · Shular v. State · Bessette v. State · Rudolph v. Landwerlen
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an attorney in addressing the jury makes a statement that he has no right to make, and that statement is of a material character, there is more than . a harmless error. The error of the court in declining to interfere will require a reversal, unless it clearly appears that the verdict is right on the evidence. Where there is a conflict of evidence the error must be deemed prejudicial,, and this must be presumed in the absence of the evidence.””
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.