Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Meehan (1979), Collier v. State (1979)
98 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 Dutton v. Evans · Nelson v. O'NEIL · Dill v. State · Brown v. City of Atlanta · Bateman v. Bateman
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[hjarm as well as error must be shown to authorize a reversal by this court.... ‘When a plaintiff in error brings a case here, he must show error which has hurt him. This court is not an expounder of theoretical law, but it administers practical law, and corrects only such errors as have practically wronged the complaining party.’ [Cit.]” [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madison 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.