Ex Parte Nichlos’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1988
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.
“an appeal from an order of a District Judge refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus does not invest this Court with jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and remanding relator to the custody of the Sheriff of McLennan County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.