Nelson v. Miwa’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2016
21 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson · Dunn v. Blumstein · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In short, we fail to see the logic in a system which provides an elaborate procedure for determining that a person is the most qualified individual for the job but, after so determining, refuses to continue to employ him solely because he has reached the age of sixty-five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Parker v. State“Where part of a statute is unconstitutional [but] is inseparable from the remainder, the whole statute is invalid.”). 31 . However, the incorporation of the Conviction Clauses into HRS § 707-756 through HRS § 846E-1 is not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Alangcas.
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.