Collins v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 416 · 1922
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Price v. Johnston (1948), Yamashita Yamashita v. Styer US (1946)
73 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 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 Carter v. McClaughry · In re Grimley · Ex parte Reed · McClaughry v. Deming · Johnson v. Sayre
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, by force and violence, or by putting in fear, shall feloniously take from the person or presence of another anything of value, shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“taking property from the presence of another feloniously and by putting him in fear is equivalent to taking it from his personal protection and is, in law, a taking from the person”
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.