State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Nobles (1999), 145 N.C. App. 302 - State v. Ferguson (2001)
44 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 State v. Strickland · State v. Ashe · State v. Huff · State v. Williams · Huff v. North Carolina
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] lesser offense should not be submitted to the jury if the evidence is sufficient to support a finding of all the elements of the greater offense, and there is no evidence to support a finding of the lesser offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt if it did not contribute to the defendant's conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“failure to require all jurors to return to the courtroom to ask a question of the court violates ... the unanimous verdict requirement of Article I, Section 24 of the North Carolina Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson
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.