Nettleton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2018
4 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Chambers v. Maroney · Avery v. State of Alabama · Hawk v. Olson · Harris 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] last minute transfer of the case from one Assistant Public Defender to another, without more, is not sufficient ground for a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel. The case was not transferred from one 'law office' to another. Presumably, the file of the case was complete and ready for use by the substituted Assistant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barela
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.