State v. Nicely’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 615 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 621 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), State v. Lott (1990)
6 federal appellate · 615 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 Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · State v. Hankerson · State v. Edwards · 37 Cal. 2d 614 - People v. Cullen
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 621 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]estimony not based on actual personal knowledge or observation of the facts in controversy, but of other facts from which deductions are drawn, showing indirectly the facts sought to be proved. * * *”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“Circumstantial evidence is not less probative than direct evidence, and, in some instances, is even more reliable.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person shall purposely cause the death of another.”
5 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.