Robinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2002
3 federal appellate · 2 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 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF JAMES CITY CTY. v. Rowe · City of Portsmouth v. Citizens Trust Co. · Hannabass v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Robinson 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of a severability clause, the test of severability is whether the legislature would be satisfied with what remains [of the statute] after the invalid part has been eliminated,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifested an intention to deal with part of the subject matter covered, irrespective of the rest of the subject matter[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contained no severability clause ... [,] the ordinance [was] presumed to be non-severable”
2 later decisions 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.