State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025
7 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 76 Wis. 2d 30 - Wagner v. State · People v. Burden · Commonwealth v. Hall · State v. Hokenson · Pallis 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]cting under circumstances evidencing a depraved indifference to human life, he recklessly engaged in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another and thereby causes the death of another... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct, when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fontana
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.