Robinson v. Kerr’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Farmers Group, Inc. v. Williams (1991), People v. Leske (1998)
50 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 Walker v. Nickerson · Morris v. Fraker
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only to the extent embraced by the statute, which may not be enlarged by construction, nor its application extended beyond its specific terms.”
7 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.