State v. Nickens’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably State v. Davis (1983), State v. Lopez (1969)
27 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 State v. Tiedt · State v. Moore · State v. Jackson · State v. Mobley · State v. Tarwater
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury may not take into consideration what defendant may or will do in the future in determining either guilt or punishment for the offense for which he is on trial. Certainly then this expert should not be permitted to express an opinion as to defendant’s potential for crime, that he ‘undoubtedly’ will commit similar crimes in the future ‘if unrestrained.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clements
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.