Nance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Smith v. State (2003), Yancey v. State (2001)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · Association of National Advertisers, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Mills v. State · Willett 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[W]here but one offense is charged but the several modes provided by the statute by which it may be committed are charged in the disjunctive, the indictment is good. The reason is that the charge is based upon one offense, and the different modes of committing it provided in the statute are based upon the same transaction.' " Nance v. State , 323 Ark. 583 , 918 S.W.2d 114 , 123 (1996), quoting Kirkpatrick v. State , 177 Ark. 1124 , 9 S.W.2d 574 , 575 (1928). This statement does not change the conclusion here. First, the court was discussing the capital murder, not terroristic threatening, statute. Second, this is not a case where "several modes provided in the statute ... are charged in the disjunctive.”
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.