13 Va. App. 574 - Robinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2016
17 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 LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Levasseur v. Wainwright · 5 Va. App. 468 - Harward v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 36 - Hogan v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 236 - MacKenzie v. Commonwealth
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a manifest probability exists that the prosecutor's repeated questions, which interjected irrelevant and inflammatory implications about Robinson into the case, prejudiced the jury and denied Robinson a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Com.“patent effort through innuendo and insinuation to paint the accused and his witness as drug dealers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Com.
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.