State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably State v. Grissom (1992), State v. Epperson (1985)
42 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 Terry v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Sedillo v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When property is stolen by a succession of takings from the same owner and from the same place, each taking is a separate crime if it results from a separate impulse or intent. However, if it appears that a single incriminating impulse or intent is involved in the successive [takings], they constitute a single larceny.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The ‘single larceny doctrine’ permits a trier of fact to consider a series of larcenies, embezzlements, or other thefts to be the result of a single larcenous scheme. If the total amount stolen is valued above the statutory amount, the defendant can be found guilty of grand larceny.” (The court then reviews Hall and Gordon.) pp. 790-91. “Both of these cases speak of the ‘single larceny doctrine’ as a rule of evidence which will support a jury finding of grand larceny from evidence of a series of petty thefts which the jury infers to be part of a single plan, scheme, or single larcenous impulse.” p. 791.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fox
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.