State v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), State v. LaSalle (2002)
10 federal appellate · 100 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. Perry · State v. Cole · Stores Realty Co. v. City of Cleveland · 42 Ohio St. 2d 46 - State v. Milanovich · 69 Ohio App. 2d 91 - State v. Gibson
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Postconviction relief proceedings will be governed by the Ohio Rules of Appellate Procedure as applicable to civil actions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“.postconviction relief is not available until such time as conventional appellate relief has been sought. Since the constitutional concerns of appellant were never raised in an appeal from the original judgment and conviction, there would, however, be no res judicata effect as to subsequent postconviction relief proceedings. Accordingly, appellant has the avenue of filing a motion for a delayed appeal from the original judgment and conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]ithin ten days after the docketing of the petition, or within any further time that the court may fix for good cause shown, the prosecuting attorney shall respond by answer or motion. Within twenty days from the date the issues are raised, either party may move for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.