Nance v. Nance’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2010
16 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Hudson v. Palmer · Bounds v. Smith · Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. · Stoner v. Thompson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a)the cost and inconvenience of transporting the prisoner between his place of incarceration and the courtroom; b) the security risk and potential danger to the court and public of allowing the prisoner to attend court; c) whether the prisoner’s claims are substantial; d) whether a determination of the matter can reasonably be delayed until the prisoner is released; e) whether the prisoner can and will offer admissible, noncumulative testimony which cannot be offered effectively by deposition, telephone, or otherwise; f) whether the prisoner’s presence is important in judging his demeanor and credibility compared with that of other witnesses; g) whether the trial is to the court or to a jury; and h) the prisoner’s probability of success on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zuniga v. Zuniga
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.