State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 283 - People v. Brigham (1979), State v. Denison (1944)
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 State v. Patterson · State v. Hopkirk · State v. Moxley · State v. Nueslein · State v. Bryant
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is difficult to explain simple terms like 'reasonable doubt' so as to make them plainer. . . . Every attempt to explain them renders an explanation of the explanation necessary.”
1 later decision 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.