Nelson v. Callahan’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 397 · 1983
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
August 1993
most recently cited
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Rideout v. United States · Henderson v. Morgan
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not invalid merely because [it is] entered to avoid the possibility of a death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caudill v. Jago
How this case has been treated — in progress
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