Nelms v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1990
22 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 Thomas v. State · Duboise v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the opinion that it is the responsibility not only of court-appointed counsel, but of the trial judge and of the District Attorney General as well to see that the rights of an indigent to an effective appellate review are protected under these Code sections. Where a trial court appoints counsel for an indigent defendant in felony cases, under T.C.A. sec. 40-2014, et seq., and where an appeal is prayed on behalf of such indigent, it becomes the duty of all the State officials involved,— official reporter, trial judge, district attorney general, and court-appointed counsel for the accused — to see that an appeal is properly perfected and a bill of exceptions timely filed. 219 Tenn. at 732 , 413 S.W.2d at 381 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such parts of the proceedings as are requested”
1 later decision 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.