Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Freeman (1981), Sanders v. State (1983)
56 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 Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · Owens v. State · Dill v. State · Fletcher v. State
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is whether the statement is offered by the accused as exculpatory or inculpatory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I might have pulled her pants off and everything started getting fuzzy and after ten (10) minutes I ran back down stairs and looked up and down the street and then ran to my house and washed my hands and used the bathroom and I put my shorts in a bag and came down stairs and threw the bag in the trash can and ran to my mother-in-law's house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richards v. State“`A statement which includes facts or circumstances which show excuse or justification is not a confession of guilt even if it admits the main fact.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.