Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 1965
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. State · Corley v. State · Johnson v. State · Tongs 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the testimony leaves in doubt the question whether the confession was freely and voluntarily made, that question should be submitted to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Browning
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.