Nichols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1996
20 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 1 Okla. Crim. 321 - Johnson v. State · Hudson v. State · Booze v. State · 86 Okla. Crim. 137 - Benton v. State · Darks 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Direct evidence is that which points immediately to the question at issue, and which, if believed, proves the existence of the fact in issue without inference or presumption.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State · Mayes v. State““When we consider all the evidence, we find that the State placed the defendant in the vicinity of the crime, at the time it was committed; that unusual circumstances surrounded his going to that vicinity ; that he had access to the weapon alleged to have caused the deputy’s death; and that he was seen leaving the vicinity of ‘The Narrows’ soon after the crime was committed, at more than the normal rate of speed. Numerous witnesses were produced by the State to make the case against the defendant. Four of those witnesses testified that they heard the defendant admit shooting the deputy. The defendant offered six witnesses in an effort to refute the State’s case. * * * The third witness was Mrs. Minerva Cook. Her testimony was offered to overcome that of her grandson and his wife [Jimmy Cook and Vicky Cook]. The grandson and his wife testified that they heard the defendant admit to their grandmother that he ‘gut-shot’ the deputy. Mrs. Cook denied that such statement was made.” (emphasis added) 418 P.2d at 84 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nichols v. Page““A peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person: 1. For a public offense, committed or attempted in his presence. 2. When the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence. 3. When a felony has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it. 4. On a charge, made upon reasonable cause, of the commission of a felony by the party arrested.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrnes v. State
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.