State v. Nail’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2015
4 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 State v. Moats · State v. Carter · State v. Burlison · State v. Bilbrey · State v. Enochs
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he successor judge would need to determine the extent to which witness credibility was a factor in the case and the extent to which he had sufficient knowledge or records before it in order to decide whether the credible evidence, as viewed by the judge, adequately supported the, verdict. If these determinations could not be made by the successor judge, the verdict could not be approved and a new trial should have been granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gillon · State v. Brown“If by reason of absence, death, sickness or other disability the judge before whom the defendant has been tried is unable to perform the duties to be performed by the court after a verdict of guilty, any other judge regularly sitting in or who may be assigned to the court may perform those duties. If the successor judge is satisfied that he or she cannot perform those duties because he or she did not preside at the trial or for any other reason, the successor judge may exercise the discretion to grant a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown
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.