State v. . Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably State v. Concepcion (1988), State v. Simmons (1954)
48 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 State v. . Boyd · State v. . Watts · State v. . Todd · State v. . Batson · State v. . Gause
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the State ordinarily is not bound by the adverse testimony of one of its witnesses but may offer other conflicting evidence. That is, it is not precluded from showing that the facts are other than as related by one or more of its witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the State offers evidence which tends to exculpate the defendant, he is entitled to whatever advantage the testimony affords and so, when it is wholly exculpatory, he is entitled to his acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hendrick
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.