State v. Kyle D. Nick’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2025
16 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 50 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Joyner · State v. Sunday · State v. Archambault · State v. Patton · In re M.B.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having conceded as a matter of law that he acted purposely or knowingly, Nick's substantial rights could not have been affected by any error in the definition of those terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ilk“A person acts purposely when it is the person's conscious object: to engage in conduct of that nature OR to cause such a result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ilk“A defendant who relies upon the defense of justifiable use of force concedes that he acted purposely and knowingly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ilk
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.