Callins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Some evidence of [the defendant's] good character already had been admitted through his mother; the wantonness of the murder and [the defendant's] violent escapades after it, however, swamped this evidence, and we believe it equally would have overwhelmed the minimal mitigating evidence that [the defendant] now argues should have been introduced at the capital sentencing phase.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Jenkins v. State · Andrews v. Collins

2. “whether, after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division

3. “It is well settled that no Penry claim can be asserted for evidence that could have been, but was not, introduced in the sentencing phase....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Muniz v. Johnson