Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 283rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Dunaway v. New York · Henry v. United States · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Romero v. State · Williams v. Texas
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the person who gives the information to the peace officer must be credible; (2) the offense must be a felony; (3) the offender must be about to escape; and (4) there must be no time to procure a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laca 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.