Nichols v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2004
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pending such appeal the defendant shall still remain in confinement, unless he give bail in such sum and with such sureties as to the Court shall seem proper: Provided, however , Bail shall not be allowed in case the defendant has been convicted of a capital crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Whitener
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.