Nordan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Wilson v. State (1942), Blue v. State (1944)
36 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 Sparrenberger v. State · Bales v. State · Finley v. State · Cross v. State · Davis v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘The administering of such a drug as strychnine is a crime of such heinous quality that the law carries with it all the elements of murder in the first degree if given knowingly, intentionally, and with intent to kill/ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State
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.