State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
5
states following
May 1997
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Florida · Baldwin v. New York Williams · State v. Smith · State v. Jones · State v. Rider
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasoning is that the alibi rule does not prevent a defendant from compelling the attendance of witnesses; rather, the rule provides reasonable conditions for the presentation of alibi evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taliaferro v. State
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.