Nichols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
July 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sloan v. Hicks · Ford v. Wainwright · Massler v. United States · Gregory v. United States · United States v. Pepe
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any defendant may attempt to question a witness prior to trial, absent any intimidating forces. However, a witness has the right to refuse to be interviewed.”
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.