Nilsson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Villalon v. State (1990), Tuggle v. Commonwealth (1984)
47 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Pate v. Robinson · Lego v. Twomey · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · Leland v. Oregon
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'penetration may be proved by circumstantial evidence,’ ” and”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rules of evidence known to the common law as to the proof of insanity shall be observed in all trials where that question is an issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hines 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.