State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965), Poe v. Ullman (1961)
97 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 Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Kemmler · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · Crowley v. Christensen · Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. International Coal Mining Company
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'virile' " is revealing, in light of its additional observation that "not all married [women] are immune from temptation or inclination to extra-marital indulgence, as to which risk of illegitimate pregnancy is a recognized deterrent deemed desirable in the interests of morality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peeler“We must construe the act as we find it, without reference to whether we think it would have been or could be improved by the inclusion of other provisions. Murphy v. Way, 107 Conn. 633 , 639 , 141 A. 858 . State v. Nelson, 126 Conn. 412 , 416 , 11 A.2d 856 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to protect purity, to preserve chastity, to encourage continence and self-restraint, to defend the sanctity of the home, and thus engender ... a virile and virtuous race of men and women.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peeler
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.