State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Golphin (2000), State v. Holden (1987)
3 federal appellate · 155 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. § 1385
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Wainwright v. Sykes · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The trial judge has broad discretion in supervising the selection of the jury to the end that both the state and the defendant may receive a fair trial. This discretionary power to regulate the composition of the jury continues beyond empanelment. It is within the trial court's discretion to excuse a juror and substitute an alternate at any time before final submission of the case to the jury panel. These kinds of decisions relating to the competency and service of jurors are not reviewable on appeal absent a showing of abuse of discretion, or some imputed legal error."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quick · State v. Williams“Absent a showing that a defendant has been deprived of a fair trial by joinder, the trial judge’s discretionary ruling on the question will not be disturbed .... The test is whether the conflict in defendants’ respective positions at trial is of such a nature that, considering all of the other evidence in the case, defendants were denied a fair trial .... In a case where antagonistic defenses were urged as a ground for severance this Court said long ago, ‘Unless the accused suffered some apparent and palpable injustice in the trial below, this court will not interfere with the decision of the [trial] court on the motion for a severance.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Prejudice would ordinarily result where codefendants' defenses are so irreconcilable that the jury will unjustifiably infer that this conflict alone demonstrates that both are guilty. . . . Severance should ordinarily be granted where defenses are so discrepant as to pose an evidentiary contest more between defendants themselves than between the state and the defendants. . . . To be avoided is the spectacle where the state simply stands by and witnesses a combat in which the defendants [attempt] to destroy each other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunt · State v. Reeb
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.