State v. Nolan’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1997 · most notably Lego v. Twomey (1972), State v. Wood (1980)
55 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · State v. Hepperman
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Stated another way, a mistrial should be granted only where the incident is so grievous that the prejudicial effect can be removed no other way. For this reason the declaration of a mistrial necessarily and properly rests largely in the discretion of the trial court who observed the incident giving rise to the request for a new trial, and who is in a better position than an appellate court to evaluate the prejudicial effect and possibility of its removal short of a mistrial . . . The function of an appellate court . . . is to determine whether, as a matter of law, the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to declare a mistrial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valentine
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.