Nelson v. Hargett’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 847 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 666 So. 2d 767 - Cole v. State (1995), Robinson v. Whitley (1993)
19 federal appellate · 23 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 Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · Hill v. Lockhart · Carnegie v. United States · Doggett v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A defendant who alleges a failure to investigate on the part of his counsel must allege with specificity what the investigation would have revealed and how it would have altered the outcome of the trial' United States v. Green , 882 F.2d 999 , 1003 (5th Cir.1989).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are insufficient to establish prejudice under Barker and its progeny”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Between diligent prosecution and bad-faith delay, official negligence in bringing an accused to trial occupies the middle ground. While not compelling relief in every case where bad-faith delay would make relief virtually automatic, neither is negligence automatically tolerable simply because the accused cannot demonstrate exactly how it has prejudiced him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.