Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1992
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The practice of examining the witnesses separate and apart from each other, at the request of either party, is invaluable, in many cases, for the ascertainment of truth and the detection of falsehood. Such has been the experience of wise men in all ages, from the days of Daniel, that divinely-inspired judge, down to the present time.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. State · State v. Anthony
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.