Thomas A. Collins v. Raymond J. Buchkoe, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.2d 343 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Sammons (1990), State v. Downs (1977)
18 federal appellate · 11 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · Williams v. State of Oklahoma · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the discretion of the sentencing judge is broad with respect to the nature and source of information utilized by him in sentencing, there are nevertheless limitations imposed by the requirements of due process. These limitations include the requirement that a defendant be afforded the opportunity of rebutting derogatory information demonstrably relied upon by the sentencing judge, when such information can in fact be shown to have been materially false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his prisoner was sentenced on the basis of assumptions concerning his criminal record which were materially untrue. Such a result whether caused by carelessness or design is inconsistent with due process of law ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McAffee v. Procunier“[T]he reliability and truthfulness of the information considered in sentencing remains a matter of fundamental concern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. B.J.T.
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.