State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025
19 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · City of Houston v. Hill · United States ex rel. Lawrence v. Woods · People v. Dunlap · Freeman 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not have appellate jurisdiction over the state courts and their decisions are not conclusive on state courts, even on questions of federal law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the statements in question had been uttered in the context of a political rally or protest, free speech concerns might well prevail. However, we fail to see how randomly goading a police officer by calling him a “£**■■■ ■■■*■■■ pig” adds to our constitutionally-protected social discourse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dugan
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.