State v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in response to [the detective's] request that defendant tell him about 'the circumstances behind [the victim's] death.' " Id . at 111, 390 P.3d 1001 (first brackets added; second brackets in original). Further, "the topic about which defendant unambiguously expressed a desire to not speak to the detectives went to the core of the entire investigation and the crime for which he had been arrested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“consider those words, in the context of the totality of circumstances existing at the time of and preceding their utterance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It's not something I want to talk about,”
2 later decisions 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.