Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2018
22 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 Rodriguez v. New York · State v. Couture · State v. Guthrie · Hefler v. Hunt · People v. Smith
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘may’ in a statute is to be construed ‘must’ or ‘shall,’ where the public interest or rights are concerned, and the public or third persons have a claim de jure that the power shall be exercised.” (Emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fredette“In general, the word 'may,' used in statutes, will be given ordinary meaning, unless it would manifestly defeat the object of the statute, and when used in a statute is permissive, discretionary, and not mandatory.”
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.