State v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding statement involuntary where defendant was falsely told he did not face death penalty if he confessed
• holding statement involuntary where defendant was falsely told he did not face death penalty if he confessed
• pointing out that the district court’s repeated reminders of what jurors said on voir dire regarding death penalty was coercive on the one holdout juror
• clothing and other personal effects

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Irven Green and Robert Benjamin Smith v. United States of America, Arnold Jack Johnson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-11-02· cited 146×
• United States v. Burl A. Sawyers, Vincent J. Johnkoski, Bonn Brown, Alfred W. Schroath
  Fourth Circuit· 1970-03-23· cited 126×
• Winters v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1974-03-20· cited 119×
• State v. Laney
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2003-10-14· cited 115×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-10-31· cited 61×
• United States v. Patrick Michael Scott
  Sixth Circuit· 1977-01-07· cited 48×
• State v. Nelson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1959-03-04· cited 45×
• Burnette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-04-07· cited 44×
• Orr v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1958-08-19· cited 41×
• State v. Aragon
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1976-02-03· cited 36×
• State v. Watson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1971-07-02· cited 33×
• State v. Rickerson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1981-03-27· cited 32×
• Pueblo v. Rivera Romero
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1961-09-15· cited 30×
• Melvin C. Jenkins v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-04-03· cited 28×
• Application of Buccheri
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1967-08-04· cited 25×
• Baynor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-31· cited 23×
• State v. Turner
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1976-11-30· cited 17×
• State v. Aguirre
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1978-03-14· cited 16×
• Fletcher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-19· cited 14×
• Nelson v. Cox
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1960-01-07· cited 13×