Collins v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.2d 129 · 1961
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Amador-Gonzalez v. United States (1968), Fields v. City of South Houston (1991)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Di Re · Agnello v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We need not decide whether Collins could have been so validly arrested for the evidence does not show that either of those charges was ever placed against him. Nor does the evidence show that he was ever informed of his arrest for any offense other than the charge on which he was ‘booked,’ viz: ‘under investigation of loitering.’ However, even if we should assume a valid prior arrest, that came to an end when he was confined in jail under the charge ‘under investigation of loitering.’ He was not then charged with the commission of any legally defined crime. * * *” 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An arrest for a crime, may be made by an officer, either under a warrant, or without a warrant if the offense is committed in his presence, or the offender is endeavoring to escape, or for other cause there is likely to be a failure of justice for want of an officer to issue a warrant.””
1 later decision 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.