State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably State v. Spreigl (1965), Chisley v. State (1953)
41 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 People v. Mullings · People v. . Hinksman · State v. Monroe · Gale v. People · State v. Fitchette
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence does not suggest that the defendant was within the first portion of the definition of murder in the third [degree]. If he was committing or attempting to commit a felony upon Middleton and death resulted from his act while so engaged, he was guilty of murder in the third degree. An assault in the second degree defined by G. S. 1913, § 8632, is a felony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kopetka““In other words, since the penal code murder in the third degree may be committed in two ways. That first defined involves an unintentional killing, without a special design upon a particular person, by an act eminently dangerous to others, evincing a mind depraved and regardless of human life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shepard““* * * That such former misconduct is relevant, i. e. has probative value to persuade us of the general trait or disposition, cannot be doubted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spreigl
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.