Nichols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Tennard v. State (1991), Guesfeird v. State (1984)
28 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 Frye v. United States · Tyler v. United States · 63 So. 2d 339 - Kaminski v. State · Baker v. State · 165 Tex. Crim. 456 - Davis 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e think that the learned trial judge fell into error in not granting appellant’s motion for mistrial. We think it fair to observe that the only reason that anyone would possibly take a lie-detector test would be to determine whether or not they were telling the truth. ... This, we think[,] was highly prejudicial to the rights of appellant, and the harm done was so great that no instruction from the court could remove it. This testimony in effect revealed the results of the lie detector test[,] and this was inadmissible.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a situation where the state’s whole case depended entirely upon the testimony of this one 14 year old witness whose credibility must have appeared somewhat shaken to the Assistant- District Attorney and must have, he thought, be[en] in need of bolstering, the appellant should not have been placed in this intolerable position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Q: Without telling me the results, did you take a lie dector test about this? “MR. MABRY: (Appellant’s counsel) I object— “A: (By witness) Yes sir.””
3 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.