Robinson v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1985
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In his traverse to the return petitioner contends that § 810.051, F.S.A., is unreasonable and unconstitutional for the reason that the punishment for breaking and entering an automobile to commit any crime, as laid down in § 810.051, is greater than the punishment for stealing an automobile as prescribed by § 811.20, F.S.A. While the difference in the sentences prescribed for the offenses compared by petitioner may seem inconsistent with the comparative gravity of the respective crimes, such inconsistency does not render either of the statutes unconstitutional. Such apparent inconsistency in punishment for comparative crimes is merely evidence of the need for complete revision of our criminal statutes. 133 So.2d at 311, 312 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt v. State
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.