United States v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 735 · 1981
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Casey (1986), Fitzgerald v. United States (1983)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Chimel v. California · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Doyle v. Ohio · Sedillo 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proof on the element or elements differentiating the two crimes is sufficiently in dispute so that the jury may consistently find the defendant innocent of the greater and guilty of the lesser included offense * * *. Moreover, it is beyond dispute that a defendant is not entitled to a lesser included offense instruction unless the evidence adduced at the trial provides a rational basis upon which the jury could find him not guilty of the greater but guilty of the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) there is a proper request; (2) the elements of the lesser offense are identical to part of the elements of the greater offense; (3) there is evidence that would support conviction of the lesser offense; (4) the proof on the element or elements differentiating the two crimes is sufficiently disputed so that the jury could consistently acquit on the greater offense and convict on the lesser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Roy
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.