Nielson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1995
4 federal appellate · 11 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 MacKenna v. Ellis · Williams v. Beto · State v. Mathis · Vessels v. State · Guzik 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What sensible end can be served by the bald proposition that when the indictment alleges only an ‘attempt’ there must be an acquittal if the evidence shows the accused went further than the State charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. State“This Court does not hesitate to reverse a conviction where ineffectiveness of [court appointed] counsel is manifestly demonstrated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. State““Surely an ‘attempt’ is not so divorced from the completed crime that the charge of one gives no suggestion of the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill 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.