Commonwealth v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 1996 · most notably Commonwealth v. Smith (1895), People v. . O'Sullivan (1887)
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Thayer v. Thayer · Inhabitants of Woburn v. Henshaw · Commonwealth v. Harlow · Commonwealth v. Mullen · Town of Norfolk v. Gaylord
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Acts of adultery between the defendant and the same woman, near the time of the adultery for which he was indicted in this case, though committed in another place, were competent to be proved in support of this indictment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Flaherty
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.