State v. Nikolaev’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2026
12 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 Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Martinez · United States v. Jones · Pelfrey v. Educational Credit Management Corp. · United States v. Gonzalez
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a matter of federal constitutional law, ‘[a] plea of guilty cannot stand unless the record in some way indicates a free and intelligent waiver by the defendant of his constitutional right to confront and cross-examine witnesses against him, his constitutional right to trial by jury, and his constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.’ In addition to waivers of these three ‘Boykin rights’ the record must disclose, as a matter of South Dakota law, that the defendant understood the nature and consequences of his plea, (quoting State v. Robinson, 469 N.W.2d 376, 378 (S.D.1991)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Weber · State v. Apple“"Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of a court." SDCL 23A-44-15; State v. Baker, 440 N.W.2d 284, 291 (S.D.1989). See United States v. Hernandez-Fraire, 208 F.3d 945, 949 (11th Cir.2000)(Rule 11 violations not previously presented to the trial court are reviewed for plain error).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Richards
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.