State v. Nowell’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Counselman v. Hitchcock (1892), Brown v. Walker (1896)
1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 People Ex Rel. Hackley v. Kelly · Emery's case
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no clerk, servant or agent of any person-accused of a violation of this chapter shall be excused from testifying against his principal for the reason that it may thereby criminate himself; but no testimony so given by him. shall in any prosecution be used as evidence, either directly or indirectly, against him; nor shall he be thereafter prosecuted for. any offence so disclosed by him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No subject shall be held to answer for any crimes or offences until the same is fully and plainly, substantially and formally,.described to him; or be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.