Collins v. Loisel’s Empirical Analysis
262 U.S. 426 · 1923
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 22 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 320 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Serfass v. United States (1975), Breed v. Jones (1975)
116 federal appellate · 22 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Ponzi v. Fessenden · Kepner v. United States · United States v. Oppenheimer · Collins v. Loisel · United States v. Rauscher
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 320 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the discharge here in question did not go to the right to have Collins held for extradition. It was granted because the proceedings on which he was then held had been irregular and the British consul general, instead of undertaking to correct them, had concluded to abandon them, and to file the charges anew by another set of affidavits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The preliminary examination of one arrested on a suspicion of a crime is not a trial, and his discharge by the magistrate upon such examination is not an acquittal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The constitutional provision against double jeopardy can have no application unless a prisoner has, therefore, been placed on trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.