328 So. 2d 674 - State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1999
21 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 Alexander v. Virginia · State v. Dotson · 320 So. 2d 188 - State v. O'CONNER · 321 So. 2d 491 - State v. White · 292 So. 2d 703 - State v. Varice
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Credibility of witnesses is a matter in which the trial judge's discretion is broad, and it is a matter concerning which he is particularly well situated to judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To admit demonstrative evidence at a trial, the law requires that the object be identified. The identification can be visual, that is, by testimony at the trial that the object exhibited is the one related to the case. It can also be identified by chain of custody, that is, by establishing the custody of the object from the time it was seized to the time it is offered in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“more probable than not that the object is the one connected with the case.”
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.