State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Chase v. State (2009), Heidler v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Drake v. State · Baker v. State · Robinson v. State · Richardson v. State · Wright 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`words or acts were sufficient to instill in the victim a reasonable apprehension of bodily harm, violence, or other dangerous consequences to herself or others.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“element in a forcible rape case since it shows that the victim is incapable of giving legal consent. State v. Collins, 270 Ga. 42, 43 , 508 S.E.2d 390 (1998). Accordingly, as this Court has previously held,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mangrum v. State“must prove the element of force as a factual matter in forcible rape cases rather than presuming force as a matter of law based on the victim's age.”
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.