State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Brister (2002), State v. Burch (2008)
59 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 State v. Hatfield · State v. Wilson · State v. Lindeman
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court has no power to impose a sentence in the absence of specific statutory authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) continue the suspended ... sentence without a change in conditions; (b) continue the suspended sentence with modified or additional terms and conditions; [or] (c) revoke the suspension of sentence and require the defendant to serve either the sentence imposed or any lesser sentence[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Richardson
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.