Nichols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 1993
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barnes v. State · Williams 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The affidavit gave detailed directions for leaving the courthouse and traveling specified roads to reach the field where the marijuana was being grown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sossamon v. State
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.