Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2015
21 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 McLaughlin v. State · Mayhew v. State · Wagoner v. State · Walters v. State · State v. Noland
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Grand Jury for the County of Marion in the State of Indiana, upon their oath do present that Richard Eugene Dye and Garnet Dobson, on or about the 22nd day of August, 1969, at and in the County of Marion and in the State of Indiana, committed the crime of theft in that they knowingly, unlawfully and feloniously exerted unauthorized control over the property of Joseph Steele, to-wit: one 22 inch Philco Portable Television Set, of the value of One Hundred Five and 00/100 Dollars ($105.00), over which property the said Richard Eugene Dye and Garnet Dobson were exercising control by reason of authority extended by the said Joseph Steele, the said Richard Eugene Dye and Garnet Dobson then and there intending to deprive Joseph Steele permanently of the use and benefit of said property, then and there being . . . contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobson v. State“to anticipate the proof which would be adduced against him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fadell v. State“essential to a proper description of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fadell 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.