State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably State v. Chiles (1979), State v. Cheun-Phon Ji (1992)
48 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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · State v. Faulkner · State v. Buckner · State v. Jakeway · State v. Morgan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The admissibility of physical evidence lies within the sound discretion of the trial court and is to be determined on the basis of its relevance in connection with the accused and the crime charged. . . . Moreover, relevant evidence is defined under K.S.A. 60-401(¿) as evidence having any tendency in reason to prove any material fact. The determination of relevancy is a matter of logic and experience, not a matter of law. . . . Furthermore, when a physical object is offered into evidence and a question arises as to its connection with either the defendant or the crime charged, unless it is clearly irrelevant, the object should be admitted for such weight and effect as the jury sees fit to give it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Costello““The existence and voluntariness of a consent to search and seizure is a question of fact to be decided in light of attendant circumstances by the trier of facts and will not be overturned on appeal unless clearly erroneous. . . . [T]he quantum of evidence necessary to prove voluntariness has been held to be by a preponderance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Niblock““As a general rule when objects of physical evidence have been kept in police custody the chain of possession must be reasonably complete but this rule may be relaxed when the object is positively identified at the trial and it is established the object remains unaltered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Niblock
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.