State v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2009
20 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 Jackson v. Denno · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · California v. Curry · State v. Freeman · State v. Latham & York
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . When the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence is considered on appeal, the question is not whether the evidence is incompatible with any reasonable hypothesis except guilt, as that question was for the jury. The appellate courts function is limited to ascertaining whether there was a basis in the evidence for a reasonable inference of guilt. . . .” (1. c. 818.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morton“. . This court has long been committed to the rule that error cannot be predicated on the refusal to give specific instructions where the instructions given cover and include the substance of those requested but refused. . . .” (l. c. 817.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morton““* * * If, in fact, defendant had desired to terminate the interrogation he could have simply stated that he would rather not answer any more questions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. House
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.