People v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003 · most notably United States v. Ross (1982), Robbins v. California (1981)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Chapman v. State of California · Arkansas v. Sanders · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Lawrence Metze v. New York · Kelley v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could reasonably [have] conclude[d] that the contents of the packages could have been inferred from their outward appearance, so that appellant could not have held a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to the contents.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The package visible in the photograph is apparently wrapped or boxed in an opaque material covered by an outer wrapping of transparent, cellophane-type plastic. (The photograph is not in color and the `green' plastic cannot be seen at all.) Both wrappings are sealed on the outside with at least one strip of opaque tape. As thus wrapped and sealed, the package roughly resembles an oversized, extra-long cigar box with slightly rounded corners and edges. It bears no legend or other written indicia supporting any interference concerning its contents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny experienced observer could have inferred from the appearance of the packages that they contained bricks of marijuana.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.