Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1995
12 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not proven that Henry Plarris was arrested for, or suspicioned of, any criminal connection with the death of Pippin, or that his guilt or innocence was, in any manner, the subject of inquiry before the coroner’s inquest. “It was proven that appellant swore at the inquest, that Henry Harris was at his house on the evening of the 9th of August, 1876, ate supper and remained there during the night, and there was evidence conducing to prove that this statement was false; but there was no evidence to prove that the whereabouts of Henry Harris, during that particular evening and night, was material to any matter that was the proper subject of inquiry by the coroner or his jury. “The materiality of the testimony on which perjury is assigned, must be established by evidence, and cannot be left to presumption or inference.””
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.