2011 UT App 107 - State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Almendarez-Torres v. United States · State v. Menzies · In Re Halverson · State v. Harmon · State v. Burk
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of the appearance of something persuasive to the contrary, we assume that the jurors were conscientious in performing ... their duty, and that they followed the instructions of the court.”
2 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.