State v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Roper (1991), State v. Mahaley (1992)
60 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Michel v. United States · United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · State v. Brown · State v. Smith
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the declarant’s personal knowledge of the underlying event; (2) the declarant’s motivation to speak the truth; (3) whether the declarant recanted; and (4) the reason, within the meaning of Rule 804(a), for the declarant’s unavailability.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“I also believe that it would be admissible as substantive evidence pursuant to 804(b)(5), other exceptions. Specifically I find that based upon all the evidence that I've heard in this motion and in the previous one, that this statement has, in comparison with all of the hearsay exceptions, equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness. The statement is offered as evidence of a material fact. The statement is more probative and on point the witness offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts, taking into consideration the fact that the defense has stipulated that the witness is unavailable, and I'll also find that the general purposes of the rules of evidence and the interest of justice will be served by the admission of the statement into evidence. It also appears that the State has given sufficient and appropriate notice to defense of its intention to offer the statement and the particulars of it.”
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.