James v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 1116 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Drinkard v. Johnson (1996), Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999)
34 federal appellate ·
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 Furman v. Georgia · Ake v. Oklahoma · Sumner v. Mata · Penry v. Lynaugh · Jurek v. Texas
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o the extent that the words strike distinct chords in individual jurors, or play to differing philosophies and attitudes, nothing more is at work than the jury system.... The answer is that such words, often of great consequence, do have a common understanding in the sense that they ultimately mean what the jury says by their verdict they mean.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“major mitigating thrust of the evidence is beyond the scope of all the special issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nethery v. Collins
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.