Nova v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2019
3 federal appellate · 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Santobello v. New York · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Sanders v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[S]o long as a twelve-person jury is fixed by law to try a person accused of a capital crime, the right to a jury of that number is constitutional and an invasion of that right a denial of due process."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and proceed to trial with six jurors. Nova was tried and convicted of first degree murder by a six-member jury. The court imposed a life sentence with the requirement that he serve at least 25 years before being considered for parole. The Third District reversed the trial court's denial of Nova's Rule 3.850 motion. Appellant points to the holding in Nova :”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he right of an accused to a trial by jury is one of the most fundamental rights guaranteed by our system of government,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.