State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2009
2 federal appellate · 11 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 In re Strickler · Shriver v. Board of County Commissioners · 1 Utah 2d 117 - State v. Fedder · State ex rel. Dawson v. Sapp · In re Beck
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The provision of K.S.A. 62-1723 relative to sentence being imposed within five days if a motion for new trial is overruled is merely directory, not mandatory nor jurisdictional, and a valid sentence may be imposed within a reasonable time thereafter." (Syl. 1.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wright · State v. Kirtdoll“"... If the motion for a new trial is overruled, sentence shall be imposed within five days...."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wright · Bruffett v. State“Provisions intended to secure order, system and dispatch in the mode of proceeding by public officials, and by a disregard of which parties cannot be injuriously affected, are not regarded as mandatory unless accompanied by negative words importing the acts required shall not be done in any other manner or time than that designated. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re A.N.S.
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.