State v. Nelson-Waggoner’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably State v. Killpack (2008), State v. Lucero (2014)
54 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 Gomez v. Dade County School Board · Lovely v. United States · Western Telepage, Inc. v. City of Tacoma · United States v. Drew · State v. Shickles
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[wle review the record to determine whether the admission of other bad acts evidence was 'serupulously examined' by the trial judge 'in the proper exercise of that discretion.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mead · State v. Johnson“the trial court must ... determine whether the bad acts evidence is being offered for a proper, noncharacter purpose, such as one of those specifically listed in rule 404(b).”
11 later decisions 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.