323 So. 2d 539 - Nelson v. Tullos’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2019
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · Williams v. Illinois · Tate v. Short · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · County of San Diego v. Rincon Band of Mission Indians
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]abeas corpus has the principal function of testing the legality of a petitioner's detention prior to his conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One purpose for requiring the proper denomination of pleadings is to apprise the respective parties as well as the court of the nature of the suit presented and the relief sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a petition is filed seeking post-conviction relief the court should look through the form and to the substance of the petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. State
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.