Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably Guardiola v. State (1978), Wilson v. State (1978)
81 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 Patterson v. State · Pirtle v. State · McAfee v. State · Kleinrichert v. State · Chatman v. State
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant discharged. No person shall be held on recognizance or otherwise to answer a criminal charge for a period in aggregate embracing more than one year from the date the criminal charge against such defendant is filed, or from the date of his arrest on such charge, whichever is later; except where a continuance was had on his motion, or the delay was caused by his act, or where there was not sufficient time to try him during such period because of congestion of the court calendar; provided, however, that in the last-mentioned circumstance, the prosecuting attorney shall file a timely motion for continuance as under subdivision (A) of this rule. Any defendant so held shall, on motion, be discharged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fink v. State · Ross v. State““[P]ositive proof or positive authentication of evidence has not been required prior to its admission, Elliott v. State, (1972) 258 Ind. 92 , 279 N.E.2d 207 . Such is the nature of circumstantial evidence, it is the function of the trier-of-fact to weigh the evidence and to draw inferences therefrom.” Collins v. State, (1977) 266 Ind. 430, 435 , 364 N.E.2d 750, 753 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carman v. State““... or (5) may raise the issue upon appeal for the first time in criminal appeals but not in civil cases; .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tilton v. State
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.