State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2020
14 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 State v. Knight · State v. Rimmasch · State v. Wareham · State v. Nelson · State v. Gillie
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the statement has equivalent ciream-stantial guarantees of trustworthiness; (2) it is offered as evidence of a material fact; (8) it: is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence that the proponent can obtain through reasonable efforts; and (4) admitting it will best serve the purposes 'of these rules and the 1nte1ests of-Justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[the statement's] admission is justified by the inherent reliability of the statement and the need for its admission,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder [the Statute], the court must carefully weigh the reliability of the statement and the need to admit it into evidence”
2 later decisions 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.