State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Barden (2002), State v. Allen (2006)
115 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Taylor v. Louisiana
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s to the issue of jury instructions, we note that choice of instructions is a matter within the trial court's discretion and will not be overturned absent a showing of abuse of discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'[o]nly an extreme impropriety on the part of the prosecutor will compel this Court to hold that the trial judge abused his discretion in not recognizing and correcting ex mero motu an argument that defense counsel apparently did not believe was prejudicial when originally spoken.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“As a general rule, counsel possess wide latitude 'to argue the facts which have been presented, as well as reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.