State v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Kline (2007), Drach v. Bruce (2006)
59 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Building & Construction Trades Council of the Metropolitan District v. Associated Builders & Contractors of Massachusetts/Rhode Island, Inc. · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · Mason v. Texaco, Inc. · Renfro v. City of Emporia
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a discretionary policy which expresses the practice of the courts generally to refuse to reopen a matter already decided, without limiting their power to do so.' [Citations omitted.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a second appeal is brought to this court in the same case, the first decision is the settled law of the case on all questions involved in the first appeal, and reconsideration will not normally be given to such questions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lewis · State v. Cheeks“[O]nce an issue is decided by the [appellate] court, it should not be relitigated or reconsidered unless it is clearly erroneous or would cause manifest injustice.”
3 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.