United States v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 79 · 1976
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Coleman v. State (1976), United States v. Clay (1981)
19 federal appellate · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Beck v. State of Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Chambers v. Maroney
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the color of a person's skin, be it black or white, is an identifying factor which, while insufficient by itself, assists the police in narrowing the scope of their identification procedure. See United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 855-886 , 95 S.Ct. 2574, 2582 , 45 L.Ed.2d 607, 619 (1975)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Franklin v. State“A brief stop of a suspicious individual, in order to determine his identity or to maintain the status quo momentarily while obtaining more information, may be most reasonable in light of the facts known to the officer at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrants that intrusion.” Terry, supra, 392 U.S. at 21 , 88 S.Ct. at 1880 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Babcock
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.