Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 1999
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 417 So. 2d 617 - Hollis 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was absolutely no evidence that any injury [the victim] sustained created a substantial risk of death or caused serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barton v. State“[p]hysical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of any bodily function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barton v. State“caus[ing] serious physical injury to [B.P.] by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware 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.