State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2021
2 federal appellate · 18 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Addington v. Texas · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · New York v. United States · Gonzalez v Raich · Printz v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the MMA, it is legal for citizens to use medical marijuana in order to treat a variety of ‘debilitating medical conditions,’ provided they have received written certification from a physician that the potential benefits of medical marijuana use would outweigh the health risks, they are accepted in the Program by DPHHS, and otherwise comply with the requirements of the MMA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stoner“when a district court acts arbitrarily without the employment of conscientious judgment or exceeds the bounds of reason, in view of all the circumstances....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hernandez“comply with all city, county, state, federal laws, ordinances, and conduct himself as a good citizen”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Watkins
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.