Nash v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1994 · most notably 112 Ill. 2d 111 - People v. Morgan (1986), Veney v. State (1968)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Giles v. State of Maryland · Pyle v. State of Kansas
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [A] false denial by the critical State’s witness that he was promised leniency in return for his testimony, knowingly acquiesced in by the prosecutor, requires reversal of a state conviction * *”
1 later decision 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.