Nelson v. Nagle’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 1549 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Higgs (2003), Jackson v. Shanks (1998)
12 federal appellate · 5 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Lockett v. Ohio · Picard v. Connor · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that sickly sentimentality that springs into action whenever a criminal is at length about to suffer for crime,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia,”
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.