People v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably People v. Feltch (1971), Early v. People (1972)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence which forms the basis of the present prosecution was turned up by a station-house search of the defendant’s clothing following his unlawful arrest. “. .. Any evidence obtained under such circumstances is not' admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gale v. People““The arrest of the defendant was ‘unreasonable’ when tested by the need to arrest under the exigencies of the situation against the invasion of privacy which the arrest entailed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Feltch
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.