Ex parte Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018
1 district · 13 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 Commonwealth v. Lockwood
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relates only to those who have served three-fourths of the time for which they were sentenced,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldsby v. Lombardi“expiration of such a period cannot be affirmed of one sentenced for life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldsby v. Lombardi
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.