6 Md. App. 644 - Nichols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1997
14 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 6 Md. App. 91 - Clark v. State · 4 Md. App. 373 - Walter v. State · 1 Md. App. 657 - Bright v. State · Bryant 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. It was made to appear that there was a reasonable expectation of securing the evidence of the witness within a reasonable time; 2. The proffered evidence was competent and material; 3. The case could not be fairly tried without the proffered evidence, and 4. The party seeking postponement had exercised reasonable diligence to secure the evidence prior to the date assigned for trial.”
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.