People v. Collins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “few defense attorneys, and certainly few jurors, could be expected to comprehend [the] basic flaw in the prosecutor’s [probability-based] analysis”
• rejecting assumptions about the statistical probability of a couple other than the defendants having committed the crime being 1 in 12 million where several of the probabilities multiplied together, including hair and eye color, were obviously interdependent
• prosecution attempted to prove identity in robbery case by totaling characteristics of defendant couple to show improbability of another couple possessing identical characteristics
• prosecution attempted to prove identity in robbery case by totaling characteristics of defendant couple to show improbability of another couple possessing identical characteristics
• prosecutor's calculation of probability that witness' description of defendants would match random persons inadmissible
• mathematician’s opinion that there was one chance in twelve million that another couple possessed distinctive characteristics of two defendants had inadequate evidentiary foundation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

131 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Russell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-10-13· cited 831×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• United States v. Rene C. Martinez, Kenneth W. Noel, and Steven T. Garcia
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-03-04· cited 554×
• State v. Duncan
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-09-09· cited 462×
• People v. Pride
  California Supreme Court· 1992-08-06· cited 458×
• City of San Jose v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1974-09-06· cited 448×
• People v. Brown
  California Supreme Court· 1985-12-05· cited 411×
• People v. Poggi
  California Supreme Court· 1988-05-16· cited 338×
• People v. Fierro
  California Supreme Court· 1991-12-26· cited 304×
• State v. Copeland
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-09-19· cited 279×
• State v. Harvey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-07-30· cited 272×
• People v. Gallego
  California Supreme Court· 1990-12-20· cited 223×
• People v. Antick
  California Supreme Court· 1975-08-26· cited 202×
• Crawford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 197×
• Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-05-26· cited 186×
• United States v. Daniel Joe Chischilly
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-07-25· cited 169×
• United States v. Aundre Sterling Wright
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-19· cited 166×
• People v. Coleman
  California Supreme Court· 1988-09-08· cited 159×
• United States v. Doherty
  First Circuit· 1989-02-01· cited 156×
• United States v. George Michael Gwaltney
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-06-02· cited 148×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• People v. Watson
  California Supreme Court· 1956-07-03· cited 7,961×
• Escobedo v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 5,250×
• People v. Dorado
  California Supreme Court· 1965-01-29· cited 934×
• Whitus v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 696×
• People v. Doherty
  California Supreme Court· 1967-07-10· cited 112×
• People v. Trujillo
  California Supreme Court· 1948-06-15· cited 105×
• People v. Jordan
  California Supreme Court· 1955-12-02· cited 52×
• State v. Sneed
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1966-05-31· cited 50×