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← 462 SO2D 962 - Nelson v. State

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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “[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 passage
  3. “caus[ing] serious physical injury to [B.P.] by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.”
    1 later decision 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.