Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
August 1998
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Katz v. United States · Henry v. United States · 7 Cal. 3d 282 - People v. Smith · People v. Saars
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he police may not . . . create the emergency situation which they advance as the predicate for their warrantless entry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelly
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.