Lockhart v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
480 federal appellate · 12 district · 1,254 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,981 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Caspari Superintendent Missouri Eastern Correctional Center et al Bohlen (1994), 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold (1992)
480 federal appellate · 12 district · 1,254 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNelson v. Lockhart (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Tibbs v. Florida · Green v. United States
Cited together with Burks v. United States · Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · Ball v. United States · Strickland v. Washington
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 1,981 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implies nothing with respect to the guilt or innocence of the defendant,”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not prevent the government from retrying a defendant who succeeds in getting his first conviction [reversed] because of some error in the proceedings leading to conviction.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the appellate court reverses the conviction for 'trial error' and the evidence offered by the State and admitted by the trial court-whether erroneously or not-would have been sufficient to sustain a guilty verdict, no double jeopardy question is presented on retrial.”
10 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.