Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably United States v. Smith (1986), 245 So. 2d 225 - State v. Ashby (1971)
1 federal appellate · 66 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 Carroll v. United States · Husty v. United States · Haile v. Gardner · Longo v. State · Smith v. United States
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Putting together the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and the decisions of this court, which we think are harmonious, we reach the conclusion that it is safer procedure to secure a search warrant preliminary to stopping a motorist and searching his car; that if halting, searching and seizing are accomplished without such a warrant the officer must be prepared to show that he had `probable cause' for his acts or `reasonable belief' or `trustworthy information' that the car was engaged in the transportation of contraband."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`to justify a basis for search and seizure'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e adopt the rule that where it is impossible or impracticable to secure a search warrant the officer making the search and seizure must be prepared to convince the court that the information he possessed was sufficient basis for the issuance of a warrant had he applied for one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.