State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Gunderson (2010), State v. Allen (2010)
39 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 State v. Montoya · State v. Heath · State v. Good · State v. English · State v. Freshment
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decision whether to grant a challenge for cause is within the discretion of the trial judge, who has the ability to look into the eyes of the juror in question, and to consider her responses in the context of the courtroom,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A challenge for cause may be taken for all or any of the following reasons or for any other reason that the court determines: (j) having a state of mind in reference to the case or to either of the parties that would prevent the juror from acting with entire impartiality and without prejudice to the substantial rights of either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. St. Germain v. State“If a district court abuses its discretion in denying a challenge for cause, the defendant uses a peremptory challenge to remove the juror, and also uses all of his peremptory challenges, we will reverse the judgment and order a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allen
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.