50 Ala. App. 285 - Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably 417 So. 2d 611 - Barbee v. State (1982), 405 So. 2d 392 - Nelson v. State (1980)
36 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 Thompson v. City of Louisville · De Jonge v. Oregon · Cole v. State of Arkansas · Smith v. O'Grady · Wilson 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a line of cases holding that where an indictment fails to state any offense such defect must be noticed despite the absence of any attack on it in the court below. Brown v. State, 32 Ala. App. 246 , 24 So.2d 450 ; Raisler v. State, 55 Ala. 64 ; Emmonds v. State, 87 Ala. 12 , 6 So. 54 ; Gaines v. State, 146 Ala. 16 , 41 So. 865 ; Mehaffey v. State, 16 Ala.App. 99 , 75 So. 647 ; Jetton v. State, 29 Ala. App. 134 , 195 So. 283 . “The conviction in this case cannot stand as it offends the first requirement of constitutional due process. The failure to charge an offense and the obvious harm to the defendant resulting therefrom, is the kind of defect involved in due process of law and it cannot be waived.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Carter v. State“[u]nder Article I, Section 6, the right of the accused to demand the nature and cause of the accusation is a fundamental component of the right to due process”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not a technical right, but is fundamental and essential to the guaranty that no person shall be deprived of his liberty except by due process of law.”
2 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.