State v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1933
1 district · 5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By this section it is evident that the legislature recognized a fact,- which is a matter of common knowledge, that human ingenuity is ever seeking some means to evade the prohibitions of the statute, and obtain a sale of liquors without transgressing the letter of the law; and intended to bring within the law and punish every disposition of liquor not expressly authorized and permitted.” (Page 549.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The giving away of intoxicating liquor, or any shifts or device to evade the provisions of this act, shall be deemed an unlawful selling within the provisions of this act.” (Laws 1881, ch- 128, § 17.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Hardesty
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.