21 Cal. 3d 208 - People v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
245 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably People v. Panizzon (1996), 16 Cal. 4th 826 - People v. Monge (1997)
245 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 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · People v. Daniels · 1 Cal. 3d 444 - People v. Hood · 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West · 12 Cal. 3d 731 - People v. Hill
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When either the prosecution or the defendant is deprived of benefits for which it has bargained, corresponding relief will lie from concessions made.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“preclude vindictiveness and more generally to avoid penalizing a defendant for pursuing a successful appeal”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a defendant gains total relief from his vulnerability to sentence....”
3 later decisions 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.