Collins v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 341 · 1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2008
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Rose v. Lundy · Funchess v. Florida · Collins 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with instructions to retain jurisdiction and hold the case in abeyance under the existing stay of execution pending Collins' prompt presentation to the Arkansas Supreme Court of all his federal constitutional claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Victor v. Hopkins“the unlawful killing of a human being when committed by a person engaged in the perpetration of ... robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.