State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1993
13 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 State v. Manley · State v. Hawkins · Ross v. United States · State v. Lord · State v. Durham
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to Count I, if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that on January 31, 1977, in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, Lillian Cermak had possession of a quantity of drugs and money, and Second, that at the time and place the defendant took the property from Lillian Cermak against her will by causing her to fear immediate injury to her person, and Third, that the defendant took the property with the intent to permanently deprive Lillian Cermak of the property and to convert it or any part of it to the use of the defendant. Then you will find the defendant guilty under Count I of robbery in the first degree. However, if you do not find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt each and all of the foregoing, you must find the defendant not guilty of that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medley
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.