United States v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.3d 554 · 2015
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 864 (§ 423 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · Giglio v. United States · United States v. Cronic · California v. Trombetta
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shown by the testimony of the custodian or another qualified witness, or by a certification that complies with Rule 902(11) or (12) or with a statute permitting certification.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is improbable that a pharmacy employee running a standard identification check of a customer would have anticipated that the records of that transaction would later be used against these particular defendants at trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kittle · State v. Mealor“[T]he ... reports at issue in this case were not made to prove the guilt or innocence of any particular individual, nor were they created for solely evidentiary purposes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mealor · State v. Kotowski
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.