State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2017
20 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 Gray v. United States · State v. Noble · State v. Upton · In re Smith · State v. Folk
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the charge is serious and the potential for prejudice against unrepresented defendants is so great that a right to counsel has been recognized.... [T]he proceeding possesses several characteristics of a trial (right to counsel, right to jury, rules of evidence, etc). The statute itself refers to the defendant's 'right to be tried as to the truth' of the allegations of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. Sullivan“If the issue of the defendant's competency to stand trial is raised during trial, the trial jury shall be instructed on the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rael“The statute does not create a new offense but merely provides a proceeding for enhancing sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. Sullivan
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.