State v. . Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1980
11 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 Lynch v. State · People v. Keenan · State v. . Benton · State v. . Smith · State v. . Ellington
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Next to doing right, the great object in the administration of public justice should be to give public satisfaction.’ When Sir Walter Raleigh was put on his trial for treason, the judges attempted to stop him in his defense, but he had the manhood to assert his rights. ‘ My lords,’ said he, ‘ I stand for my life.’ Posterity has vindicated him, and condemned his judges.””
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.