State v. NICHOLSON’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1998
2 federal appellate · 17 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 State v. Bates
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon ... Three conditions must unite to render one an accessory after the fact: (1) The felony must be complete . (2) The accessory must have knowledge that the principal committed the felony. (3) The accessory must harbor or assist the principal felon .... (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Price
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.