State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Sweeney (1985), State v. Smith (2000)
48 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 Barker v. Wingo · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley · United States v. Calvert · Castorr Et Al. v. Brundage Et Al. · State v. Shaw
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 seriousness of the offense; the facts and circumstances of the case which led to the dismissal; and the impact of a reprosecution on the administration of this section and on the administration of justice.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“ha[d] no teeth. Dismissal of an indictment or information is purely a matter for the discretion of the trial judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leipus · State v. White
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.