Pratt v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably J.M.W. v. T.I.Z. (2011), State v. Moa (2012)
1 district · 89 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 Buckley v. Fitzsimmons · State v. Dunn · State v. Holgate · Green Acres Trust v. London · Asay v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tlo preserve an issue for appeal the issue must be presented to the trial court in such a way that the trial court has an opportunity to rule on that issue.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Floyd · State v. Ellis“(1) the issue must be raised in a timely fashion; (2) the issue must be specifically raised; and (8) a party must introduce supporting evidence or relevant legal authority.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. State · State v. Floyd“Our invited error doctrine arises from the principle that a party cannot take advantage of an error committed at trial when that party led the trial court into committing the error.”
8 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.