Collier v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably McMorris v. Alioto (1978), Timothy Mcgann v. Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation (1994)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Beck v. State of Ohio · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have relaxed the strictures of the Fourth Amendment in light of the unprecedented violence experienced in these two public areas. In the present case the nature of the threat is injury posed by a can or bottle which might be thrown with resulting injuries. But unlike a bomb or other weapon considered in the courtroom or airport cases, cans and bottles have many proper uses, and it is only through their misuse that injury can result. The defendants’ objective in seeking to prevent this misuse is unquestionably a valid one. But it is also quite clear that the dangers posed by the potential use of bottles and cans as projectiles pales in comparison to the dangers posed by a bomb or a gun used to facilitate a skyjacking or terrorize a courtroom. [ 414 F. Supp. at 1362 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nakamoto v. Fasi“The nature and threat necessitating airport and courtroom searches is death or serious injury to a number of citizens caused by inherently lethal weapons or bombs.... The courts have relaxed the strictures of the Fourth Amendment in light of the unprecedented violence experienced in these two public areas_ Airport security and courthouse search procedures were implemented only recently in the wake of violence reported in these public areas around the country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. State“[i]mplying consent to an otherwise unconstitutional search on the basis of the acts of a citizen would be appropriate only if those acts were unequivocal and specific. Collier v. Miller, 414 F.Supp. 1357 , 1366 n. 9 (S.D.Tex.1976).”
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.