State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 228 (Child Support Recovery Act of 1992)
Relies on Crandon v. United States · United States v. Santos · Callanan v. United States · Deal v. United States · Carcieri v. Salazar
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A statute is ambiguous only if it is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Overweg · State v. Bowen“[T]he relevant [dictionary] definition of a term depends on the context in which the term is used.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he meaning of a word cannot be determined in isolation, but must be drawn from the context in which it is used.”
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.