Nickerson v. Ta Lee’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 1125 · 1992
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Maes v. Thomas (1995), Smith v. Dixon (1994)
22 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not rest upon an independent and adequate state ground,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Dixon · Smith v. Dixon“court reached and reviewed the merits of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Dixon · Smith v. Dixon“The court neither mentions procedural default (or any synonymous term) nor cites any relevant North Carolina statutory or decisional law. It does not even note that the claims raised by Nickerson in the underlying motion had not been raised in his previous direct and collateral appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Dixon
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.