276 So. 2d 652 - Nix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Smith v. State (1998), 462 So. 2d 308 - Lambert v. State (1984)
28 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 Gallego v. United States · 228 So. 2d 294 - Stunson v. State · 236 So. 2d 408 - Wright 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such matters, the presumption of regularity supports the official acts of public officers,”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Hemphill 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.