If multiple links on a page point to the same URL, and one of them is no-followed, does that impact the one that isn't?
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Page A has two links on it that both point to Page B.
Link 1 isn't no-follow, but Link 2 is.
Will Page A pass any juice to Page B?
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The no follow attribute is per link and not per page. So if you have two links on page A, and only one has the no follow attribute, Googlebot will still follow the other link to page B and will pass on juice. How much juice depends on several factors such as the relevancy of the link and the quality of links pointing to the page where the link came from. I hope this helps
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