State v. Collens’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1975
9 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 People v. Barric · Smith 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had new evidence been received, the objection might have had force, but we can perceive no possible objection to reading to the jury documentary evidence, which had been seasonably offered and received at any time. It gave the jury no information to which they were not entitled, and, even after retiring, the jury might have returned into the court and requested that the evidence be read over to them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Adam
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.