Nickel v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
256 U.S. 222 · 1921
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1999 · most notably United States v. Allegheny County Pa (1944), Staub v. City of Baxley (1958)
9 federal appellate · 12 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 Enterprise Irrigation District v. Farmers Mutual Canal Co. · Corn Products Refining Co. v. Eddy · Moffitt v. Kelly · Nickel v. State
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`no pretence that the [state] Court adopted its view in order to evade a constitutional issue, and the case has been decided upon grounds that have no relation to any federal question, [we will] accept[] the [state court] decision whether right or wrong.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.