State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 865 So. 2d 284 - State v. Hampton (2004), 770 So. 2d 868 - State v. Robinson (2000)
42 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. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss · 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant is convicted of two or more offenses based on the same act or transaction or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the terms of imprisonment shall be served concurrently unless the court expressly directs that some or all be served consecutively .... Our emphasis.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Means · State v. Jones“[Even] assuming that the three counts involved were close enough in time and place to be considered "same act" crimes, the trial court is not obligated to mete out concurrent sentences. 467 So.2d at 1161 .”
3 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.