Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Coker v. Georgia (1977), Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008)
21 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Mempa v. Rhay
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not prescribe sufficiently detailed procedures to accomplish `controlled discretion' by the jury in the imposition of the death penalty . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State“shall suffer death by electrocution, or be imprisoned for life or over twenty (20) years, as the jury may determine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State“He shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons, after conviction, except in cases of impeachment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Workman v. State
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.