Robinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2007
14 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 Malouf v. City of Roanoke · Commonwealth v. Doss · Smith v. Commonwealth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Be It Ordained and Enacted by the County Board of Supervisors of Warren County, Virginia, that said Board hereby declares the boundary line of each lot or tract of land, or any stream in said County of Warren, to be a lawful fence as to any horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep or goats. “It shall be unlawful for the owner or manager of any horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep or goats to permit any such animals to run at large beyond the limits of his own lands. “And violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than Five Dollars nor more than Three Hundred Dollars for each offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to a consideration of the penal provisions of the state statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to run at large beyond the limits of his own lands”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.