Smith v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 951 · 1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Nichols v. Scott (1995), Sones v. Hargett (1995)
29 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 Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Michigan v. Long
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for a defendant to demonstrate actual innocence of the sentence imposed he would have to show that but for the constitutional error he would not have been legally eligible for the sentence he received”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]t would be difficult to think of one who is more 'innocent' of a sentence than a defendant sentenced under a statute that by its very terms does not even apply to the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Carter · Jackson v. Anderson“Under Texas law, a defendant's failure to object at trial to the introduction of an allegedly infirm prior conviction precludes a later attack upon the conviction that utilized the prior conviction.... Even where the alleged error is of constitution dimension,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hogue 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.