State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2010
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
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · State v. Jennings · State v. Gorham · State v. Morningstar · State v. Bowers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a person is held to answer for a public offense, if an indictment be not found against him within thirty days, the court must order the prosecution to be dismissed, unless good cause to the contrary be shown * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sassman · State v. Boyd“await the production of evidence beyond the statutory period set out in § 795.1 and use that delay as good cause for ignoring that statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hines
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.