People v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 77 - Theodor v. Superior Court (1972), 55 Cal. 2d 714 - People v. Keener (1961)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 43 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 SGRO v. United States · People v. Gory · People v. Torres · 111 Cal. App. 2d 337 - People v. Van Valkenburg · 84 Cal. App. 2d 531 - People v. Graves
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the affidavit states no exact date but is based upon the observation of the affiant, and the offense being committed was stated in the present tense”
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.