Collazo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Allridge v. State (1988), Moore v. State (1985)
43 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 Albrecht v. State · Jones v. State · Murphy v. State · Ford v. State · Talley v. State
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an established general rule of evidence that proof of similar happenings, extraneous transactions or prior specific acts of misconduct committed by a party is irrelevant to the contested material issues in the case on trial and therefore inadmissible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Messenger v. State · Jones v. State“When identity has become a contested, material issue, as it did in this case, there must be a showing that the extraneous offense which was committed by the Defendant was ‘so nearly identical in method [to the instant offense] as to earmark them as the handiwork of the accused. Here much more is demanded than the mere repeated commission of crimes of the same class, such as repeated burglaries or thefts. The device used must be so unusual and distinctive as to be like a signature.’ E. Cleary, McCormick’s Handbook of the Law of Evidence, 449 [2d ed. 1972], If there is no sufficiently distinctive characteristic, then the relevancy of the evidence cannot outweigh its prejudicial potential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State“Extraneous transactions constituting offenses shown to have been committed by the accused may become admissible upon a showing by the prosecution both that the transaction is relevant to a [contested,] material issue in the case [and that] the relevancy value of the evidence outweighs its inflammatory or prejudicial potential. Ruiz v. State, 579 S.W.2d 206 (Tex.Cr.App. 1979); Jones, supra .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Messenger 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.