Nicoll v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2018
18 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 450 So. 2d 217 - Holly v. Auld · 463 So. 2d 224 - State Ex Rel. Quigley v. Quigley · Nicoll v. Baker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have no occasion to resort to rules of constructionthey must read the statute as written, for to do otherwise would constitute an abrogation of legislative power.”
9 later decisions 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.