State v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Butler (1982), State v. Howard (1988)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 117 N.J. Super. 112 - State v. Rhein · State v. Nichols
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the responsible arms of the judicial and law enforcement establishment, together with defendant's own counsel, have misinformed him as to a material element of a plea negotiation, which the defendant has relied thereon in entering his plea . . . it would be manifestly unjust to hold the defendant to his plea. [ State v. Nichols, 71 N.J. 358, 361 , 365 A. 2d 467 (1976) (citing R. 3:21-1).]”
2 later decisions 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.