Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2023
15 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 Pruitt v. State · Harris v. State · Worthem v. State · Stobbart v. State · Coggins 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance, appellant must show counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced him to the point that a reasonable probability exists that, but for counsel’s errors, the outcome of the trial would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“jury was authorized to conclude that appellant used excessive force when he shot the victim in response to the victim having punched him”
1 later decision 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.