Robyn v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1963
9 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 Patterson v. United States · Bayard v. Klinge · State v. Mims · State v. Lentz
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * we think the better rule is that when there is a verdict clear and sufficient in all respects, such foreign and irrelevant matter may be rejected as harmless surplusage. It is much the same in principle as a recommendation of clemency. TMs has never teen held to vitiate a verdict.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gavle““We, the jurors recommend that the sum of twenty-three hundred ($2,300.00) dollars claimed to be recovered by this suit be donated to the American Red Cross.” (Signed by each juror.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bakken v. Lewis““* * * It would have been good practice to direct the jury to again retire and return a verdict unburdened with any such recommendation, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bakken v. Lewis
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.