Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Brown v. State (1941), Volderauer v. State (1924)
80 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 Chandler v. State · Pattee v. State · Trout v. State · Cole v. State · Naanes v. State
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a reproach to the law to require a judgment to be held for naught, and -the State put to the expense of another trial, for a defect which did not prejudice the substantial rights of -appellant, and which he could have had corrected before trial if it in fact existed. This we are forbidden to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bledsoe 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.