State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably State v. Shank & Bradley (1975), State v. Peck (1967)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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. Bates · State v. Flack · State v. Rasch · State v. Dale · State v. Davis
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the state has introduced evidence upon which, if believed by a jury, they may reasonably find the defendant guilty of the crime charged, the state has made out a prima facie case, and the jury, not the judge, ought to pass upon it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bean · State v. Bush“direct the jury to return a verdict of acquittal”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott
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.