State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
July 2014
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Phillips · State v. Infantolino · State v. Bido · State v. Lynch · State v. Tempest
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gaps in the chain [of custody] normally go to the weight of the evidence rather than its admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez
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.