440 So. 2d 1130 - Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985), Hall v. State (1999)
66 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 United States v. Agurs · Irvin v. Dowd · Dobbert v. Florida · 362 So. 2d 1296 - Anderson v. State · United States v. Beasley
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has so saturated the community as to have a probable impact on the prospective jurors”
22 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Luong v. State · Gavin v. State“`The determination of whether or not to grant a motion for change of venue is generally left to the sound discretion of the trial judge because he has the best opportunity to assess any prejudicial publicity against the defendant and any prejudicial feeling against the defendant in the community which would make it difficult for the defendant to receive a fair and impartial trial.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant is entitled to a change of venue if he can demonstrate to the trial court that he cannot receive a fair and impartial trial in the county where he is to be tried.”
6 later decisions 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.