Nichols v. . Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
83
cited by 83 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
20
states following
December 1978
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1978 · most notably St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Johnston (1890), Gould v. . Cayuga County National Bank (1881)
1 federal appellate · 73 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
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.