Collman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Pellegrini v. State (2001), Gallego v. State (2001)
1 district · 25 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 Chapman v. State of California · Estelle v. McGuire · Johnson v. United States · Neder v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]s it clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error?'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being [w]ith malice aforethought, either express or implied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There are certain classes of murder which carry with them conclusive evidence of malice aforethought. One of these classes of murder is murder committed by means of child abuse. Therefore, a killing which is committed by child abuse is deemed to be murder of the first degree whether the killing was intentional or unintentional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wegner 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.