Nichols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2021
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 382nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Carmouche v. State · Reasor v. State · Duron v. State · Veteto v. State · Flowers 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If possession of each individual substance within a penalty group was the same statutory offense, the State could amend an indictment over objection, interchanging among any one of the nine subsections and over one hundred complex chemical structures individually composing Penalty Group 1, at will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Legislature intended to make possession of each individual substance within the same penalty group a separate and distinct offense. (Emphasis in original)”
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.