Springer v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 329 · 1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2025
8 federal appellate · 2 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 McMann v. Richardson · Marzullo v. Maryland · United States v. Edwards · Root v. Cunningham · Brooks v. State of Texas
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion, to grant relief in this case would be tantamount to establishing a per se rule that in any case in which there is evidence that a defendant was intoxicated by drugs or alcohol at the time of an alleged offense, the “range of competence” test would require that an attorney obtain a psychiatric examination of his client and consider the possibility, indeed the probability, of an insanity defense. We do not think that the Sixth Amendment requires this degree of cau tion and meticulosity on the part of counsel who has otherwise performed in a competent, conscientious and professional manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hinkle 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.