United States of America Ex Rel. Alvin Nelson v. Harold Follette, Warden, Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York,respondent-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 1055 · 1970
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably United States v. Sperling (1974), United States v. Burke (1983)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Bruton v. United States · Harrington v. California · Frazier v. Cupp · Roberts v. Russell · Saia v. United States
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhere the jury would have had to make a substantial inference to inculpate appellant on the basis of his codefendant's statements, an inference possible only because of other testimony independently subject to cross-examination, and where the information, even if possibly incriminatory of appellant, could not have constituted a vital part of the Government’s case against him, we hold that the cautionary instructions given by the trial court were adequate to protect appellant’s constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consequently, for the Bruton rule to apply, the challenged statements must be clearly inculpatory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not clearly inculpatory because they Alone did not serve to connect Nelson with the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.