Nelson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
225 F.2d 902 · 1955
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2023
10 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 4161
Relies on Burns v. United States · Manning v. United States · Hollandsworth v. United States · Myers v. New York State Tax Commission · Hunter v. Facchine
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Courts may not act arbitrarily in revoking probations, but all that is required is evidence and facts which reasonably satisfy the judge that the probationer’s conduct has not been as good as that required by the conditions of probation. (Citation of cases).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.