Nickerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 408 So. 2d 1037 - Parker v. State · 389 So. 2d 336 - Parker v. State · Maloney v. State · Jones v. State · 377 So. 2d 221 - Thorpe v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“to describe the defense to the charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is that the defendant may very well be excused from his assault upon his assailant by reason of duress or self-defense without being excused from his possession of the firearm, because he either had other alternatives to the possession of the firearm or possessed it beforehand. The word”
1 later decision 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.