Nelson v. Jacobsen’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Allen v. Friel (2008), 93 Md. App. 168 - Fraidin v. Weitzman (1992)
4 district · 67 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Goss v. Lopez · Eisenstadt v. Baird · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Als a general rule, a party who represents himself will be held to the same standard of knowledge and practice as any qualified member of the bar'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“every consideration that may reasonably be indulged.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[tlimely and adequate notice and an opportunity to be heard in a meaningful way.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Plumb v. State · State Ex Rel. Mw
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.