Nelson v. McCreary’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Washington Investment Partners of Delaware, LLC v. Securities House (2011), Crutchfield v. United States (2001)
1 district · 29 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Carvel Corporation v. Diversified Management Group Inc · In Re Melton · Psychiatric Institute of Washington v. Allen
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broad discretion in fashioning appropriate jury instructions, and its refusal to grant a request for a particular instruction is not a ground for reversal if the court's charge, considered as a whole, fairly and accurately states the applicable law.” Nelson v. McCreary, 694 A.2d 897, 901 (D.C.1997) (quoting Psychiatric Inst. of Washington v. Allen, 509 A.2d 619, 625 (D.C.1986)). 12 . See U.S. Const. Art III, § 2, cl. iii (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an informed choice among permissible alternatives, which is the essence of an appropriate exercise of discretion”; thus, the decision must be”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gubbins v. Hurson
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.