Collazo v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 411 · 1991
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Taylor v. Maddox (2004), United States v. Benitez (1994)
135 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, under the totality of the circumstances, the challenged confession was obtained in a manner compatible with the requirements of the Constitution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“himself initiates further communication, exchanges, or conversation with the police”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he waiver must have been made with a full awareness both of the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it.”
7 later decisions 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.