Nay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Cortinas v. State (2008), Batiste v. State (2013)
58 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 Neder v. United States · State v. Williams · Crawford v. State · Metheny v. State · Leonard 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has consistently held that the defense has the right to have the jury instructed on its theory of the case as disclosed by the evidence, no matter how weak or incredible that evidence may be.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether a proffered instruction is a correct statement of the law presents a legal question which we review de novo.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error.”
3 later decisions 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.