Smith v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
964 F.2d 483 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Lucas v. Johnson (1998), United States v. Tansley (1993)
13 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp. · Loper v. Beto · Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Tafero v. Dugger
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the use of the void convictions in Loper 'might well have influenced the outcome of [that] case' because the issue of innocence and guilt 'turned entirely on whether the jury would believe the testimony ... of Loper.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'constituted denial of fundamental fairness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lucas v. Johnson
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.