Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1986
6 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 72 So. 2d 364 - Wheeler v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and also affirmed his conviction of the misdemeanor of selling chances in a lottery pursuant to an information charging him with the felony of having an interest in a lottery or connection with a lottery”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holliday v. State“in that he did engage in the business of selling * * * chances”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holliday v. State
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.