Nickell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2022
10 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Young · Lawn v. United States · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life · Duckworth v. Eagan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Argument or evidence is impermissible vouching only if the jury could reasonably believe that the prosecutor is indicating a personal belief in the witness' credibility, either through explicit personal assurances of the witness' veracity or by implicitly indicating that information not presented to the jury supports the witness' testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no improper vouching if the testimony does 'no more than reveal that the witnesses had an obligation to testify truthfully and explain the consequences of a breach of that obligation'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Postelle v. State
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.