State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2019
11 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 Barker v. Wingo · Griffin v. California · United States v. Marion · United States v. MacDonald · Moore v. Arizona
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Let me stop right there. Now ladies and gentlemen, there is no eyewitness as to what happened in that bathroom that the State can produce for you today. There’s only two people back there that knows exactly what happened and can tell you — who knows exactly what happened back there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yates“the comment must be the type that, when viewed in context, would cause the jury to infer that the remark referred to the accused’s failure to testify.... The ultimate question is whether the remark drew the jury’s attention to the lack of testimony by defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yates“we want to ask you, [Defendant], we want to ask you what you were doing with these guys”
1 later decision 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.