Collins v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
150 U.S. 62 · 1893
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Spears (1956), United States v. Milk (2006)
12 federal appellate · 16 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. Abarr · State v. Fitzsimmons
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the mere fact of passion on the part of the slayer will not reduce the crime from murder to manslaughter, where he entertained a previous purpose to kill, unless it is made to appear that such purpose was abandoned before the homicidal act was committed. * * * ” 26 Am.Jur. 168, 169.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Spears“then the mere fact of passion would not reduce the crime below murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.