Collins v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1990
3 federal appellate · 21 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 State v. Wear · State v. Dabon · Wade v. Warden of State Prison · State v. Conley · Wallace v. White
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been accepted as a well known principle of law that `the jurisdiction of a court depends upon the state of affairs existing at the time it is invoked, and if the jurisdiction once attaches to the person and subject matter of the litigation, the subsequent happening of events, though they are of such a character as would have prevented jurisdiction from attaching in the first instance, will not operate to oust the jurisdiction already attached. * * Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, page 171.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[jjudges of municipal courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over all offenses, except for a crime, the punishment for which may be imprisonment for life . . ., committed by children under the age of 17 years, . . . .” (147 Me. p. 165, 84 A.2d p. 537) (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lafferty“Where the court has jurisdiction of the crime for which accused is indicted, it is not lost if on the evidence he is convicted of a crime of an inferior grade of which it would not have jurisdiction originally. Collins v. Robbins, supra at 169, 84 A.2d at 539 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Villados
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.