Robbins v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.3d 1062 · 1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · Penson v. Ohio · Teague v. Lane
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“application of Anders . . . required no extension of precedent or logical interpolation. The facts of Robbins's case almost directly mirror those of Anders. Accordingly, no 'new' constitutional rule was invoked in this case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“briefly outlined the facts surrounding Robbins's trial and failed to present any possible grounds for appeal. Included in the short document was a request that the court itself review the record for arguable issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. M.c. Kramer“[o]ur obligation ... is to determine whether appellate counsel met his obligations under the United States Supreme Court's requirements set forth in Anders and its progeny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. M.c. Kramer
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.