Nelson v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 446 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Lockhart v. Nelson (1988), 157 Ill. 2d 138 - People v. Levin (1993)
9 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Duren v. Missouri · United States v. Tateo · Bullington v. Missouri · Arizona v. Manypenny
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ithout [it], the state has failed to provide sufficient evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Nelson
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.