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Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
9
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2016

12 state decisions

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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.

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 12th Judicial District Court)

Relationships

Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Bynum v. State · Alvarado 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hile injury to a child is a “result of conductf,]” ... this does not mean that the actor is prosecuted for the result of the conduct, rather than the conduct itself.... [Tjhis means that the conduct must be done with the required culpability to effect the result the Legislature has specified, so that the culpable mental state relates to the result of the defendant’s conduct, and not to the nature of the conduct. The fact remains that the actor is prosecuted for her conduct.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Aiwohi
  2. “has specifically limited the application of [Texas'] penal laws to conduct committed against a human being who has been born and is alive.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Unborn Child of Starks
  3. “the legislature, by its definitions of 'child,' 'person,' and "individual,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Unborn Child of Starks

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.