Donald Dee Collier v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 929 · 1974
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably Potts v. Zant (1981), 183 Wis. 2d 587 - State Ex Rel. Flores v. State (1994)
28 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anders v. California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Fay v. Noia · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either suggested, acquiesced in or concurred with the decision to dismiss the appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some responsible state official was or should have been cognizant of both his desire to appeal and his inability to afford to do so . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]aiver of the fundamental right to appeal requires knowing and intelligent participation”
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.