Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

cited by 91 later decisions

states following

November 2002

most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 88 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Terry v. State (1984), Brewer v. State (1981)

3 federal appellate · 88 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 Cogdell v. United States · Herko v. United States · Wilson v. State · Kleinrichert v. State · Barker 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“To be categorized as fundamental error and thus to transcend our procedural requirements, the error must be blatant and the potential for harm must be substantial and appear clearly and prospectively.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Greer v. State · Williams v. State
“Such errors have been variously described as a failure to meet the requirements of due process of law, gross error which offends our concept of criminal justice, and the denial of fundamental due process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Wright v. State · Reynolds v. State
“Only when the record reveals clearly blatant violations of basic and elementary principles, and the harm or potential for harm could not be denied, will this Court review an issue not properly raised and preserved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Lee v. State

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.