State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Fanning (1982), State v. Broom (1988)
111 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 Griffin v. California · Bruno v. United States · City of Cincinnati v. Epperson · 15 Ohio App. 2d 115 - State v. Perod · State v. Corkran
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a trial court's decision on jury instructions, an appellate court's role is to ascertain whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to give a proposed instruction, and, if so, whether that refusal was prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ossege
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.