Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lovett v. United States · Litwak v. Oscar Productions, Inc. · Andreas v. United States · Caribbean Petroleum Corp. v. Coastal Fuels of Puerto Rico, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neutral and generic responses about being guided by the evidence presented and to follow the instructions previously given are therefore not only the safest but the most favored.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKee v. State“[T]he response to a jury question is within the trial court's sound discretion, and the practice of exchanging communications between the judge and jury is not recommended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKee 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.