Nahas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1975
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Dobosky v. State · Atkinson v. State · Meyers v. State · Farnsley v. State · Blackburn 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It must be remembered that we are considering a felony case, and that the general rule in such cases is that a plea by an attorney made for the accused ‘will be considered a mere nullity, except a plea of not guilty—which plea cannot injure his client.’ 8 R. C. L. 109, § 74.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Richardson
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.