State v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2012
22 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 Cox v. State of Louisiana · Edwards v. South Carolina · Adderley v. Florida · Greer v. Spock · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a] person is guilty of disorderly conduct if: III. He purposely causes a breach of the peace, public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creates a risk thereof, by: (b) Disrupting the orderly conduct of business in any public or government facility[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Comley
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.