Trimming serves two purposes. First is to prevent a case from getting so long that it jams the case mouth into the throat of your barrel, which can cause very high pressure, especially in a rifle with a ball throat that tapers from the freebore straight into the lead. The second is to level the distance from the casehead so that your crimps apply consistent pressure.
Many pistol cartridges keep their length or, especially in lower pressure rounds like the .45 ACP, they can actually shrink with each load cycle. Unless you have a high enough pressure cartridge to grow the case with each shot, as some heavy magnums can, you have no need to trim for the first reason. If you are roll crimping, uneven case length can affect the crimp strength significantly. If you are applying a taper crimp, though, the case length is less critical since the crimp occurs over greater distance and so case length variation is a lower percentage of that total crimp distance. Unlike a roll crimp, the purpose of the taper crimp is not so much to grasp the bullet hard as it is simply to prevent the bullet from backing up into the case under recoil.
With jacketed bullets crimping is usually unnecessary except to remove the flare from the case mouth after the bullet is seated. If you are putting a roll crimp into a bullet cannelure, that is the only instance in which you might find case length critical. For that purpose you can trim them once and if you subject them all to the same loads the same number of times, they should continue to have matching length throughout their useful life.
If you think about COL, you will realize that because the reloading press ram pushes the case up from its base, the depth the bullet is pushed in on seating is with respect to the base, not the mouth of the case. So, the case length doesn't affect the COL. The case mouth will just be higher up on the bullet in some rounds and lower on others, bu the bullet nose will still be the same distance from the casehead. What is critical is the distance from the base of the seated bullet to the casehead because that controls how much space the powder burns in and that, in turn, controls pressure. If you seat a bullet deeper in, the pressure goes up.