United States v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 4 · 1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Ben Zvi (2001), United States v. Barone (1997)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Olano · Huddleston v. United States · United States v. Gaudin · St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Camp
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may then exercise [our] discretion to notice a forfeited error, but only if the error . . . seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the error was unclear at the time of trial but becomes clear on appeal because the applicable law has been clarified”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“most likely was based on counsel's correct understanding of the law at the time”
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.