State v. Nichols

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• overruling previous decision that reserved the possibility of considering an ineffectiveness claim on direct appeal if counsel’s incompetence was clear from the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-02-25· cited 25×
• Samsara Memorial Trust v. Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman v. Raisin Memorial Trust
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2014-08-19· cited 18×
• State v. Donovan
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1997-08-08· cited 15×
• State v. Joel H.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2000-07-18· cited 12×
• State v. Gach
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2006-07-06· cited 11×
• State v. Ali
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2011-12-06· cited 11×
• State v. Standring
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2008-12-16· cited 9×
• State of Maine v. David W. Troy
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2014-05-08· cited 2×
• Standring v. United States
  D. Maine· 2010-10-27
• State of Iowa v. Tyjaun Levell Tucker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-05-07
• State of Iowa v. David J. Treptow
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-05-28
• Payzant v. Barnhart
  D. Maine· 2012-03-21
• State of Maine v. Denis Lemieux
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2025-12-23

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Pullen
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-06-10· cited 60×
• State v. LeBlanc
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-04-20· cited 20×
• State v. Jordan
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1995-06-01· cited 2×