Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Tichnell v. State (1980), Newton v. State (1977)
3 federal appellate · 50 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jackson v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Sims v. State of Georgia · Schowgurow 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is immediately apparent that when Judge Dyer ruled appellant’s statement to be ‘a voluntary one of his own free will’ the State’s evidence of ‘voluntariness’ was uncontradicted. It is most unlikely, therefore, that the jury, on the evidence then before it, would have reached a different conclusion, even if the court’s opinion had not been made known to them.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since there is an abundance of evidence to support a verdict of premeditated murder under § 407 of Article 27 we must reject appellant’s presumption that the jury found him guilty of a felony murder under § 410. It is entirely possible, and we think it more than likely, that the jury’s verdict reflects a finding that the murder of Florence was premeditated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although this Court and the Review panel [in the Jonesi case] lacked jurisdiction to review the appellant’s sentence, Art. II, § 20 of the Constitution of Maryland gives the Governor the ‘power to grant reprieves and pardons’ and under this provision and those of Code (1965 Repl. Vol.), Art. 41, § 120, many governors have commuted sentences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bartholomey 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.