State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2017
15 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 Commonwealth v. Knighton · State v. Saavedra · Decker 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he punishments set forth in Section 39-08-01(4)(a) are mandatory minimum penalties and because a first-time offender is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor under Section 39-08-01(2), he may be punished in accordance with the punishments specified for a Class B misdemean- or in Section 12.1-32-01(6), N.D.C.C. — up to a $500 fine, 30 days’ imprisonment, or both. Thus the trial court was not limited to sentencing the defendant to pay a fine of $250 and to undergo an addiction evaluation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chapin“The sentencing decision is of paramount importance in our criminal justice system. At sentencing, the court seeks to vindicate society's interest in imposing appropriate sanctions against those individuals determined to be criminally culpable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.