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← 78 NCAPP 398 - State v. Nicholson

State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Bindyke · State v. Witherspoon · State v. Lowe · State v. Van Pelt

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] conspiracy indictment need not describe the subject crime with legal and technical accuracy because the charge is the crime of conspiracy and not a charge of committing the subject crime.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A criminal conspiracy is an agreement by two or more persons to perform an unlawful act or to perform a lawful act in an unlawful manner.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Since the conspiracy is the crime, and not its execution, no overt act is necessary to complete the offense.”
    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.