State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2012
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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · 39 Ala. App. 1 - Mason v. State · State v. Deedon · State v. Chase
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.
““That the terms of a penal statute creating a new offense must be sufficiently explicit to inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties . . ; and a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rossitto v. State · State v. J. K.““ * * * The precise purpose intended by the General Assembly in the enactment of § 4332 (i) is difficult to comprehend. It does not require that all court records of the case against the successful probationer be destroyed; it calls only for the striking of ‘the plea or verdict of guilty entered by or recorded against’ him. This leaves unstricken and of record such documents and docket entries as the indictment or information, the fact of arraignment, the transcript of the trial, the evidence, the presentence report, the sentence, and the probation officer’s record. Obviously, if by § 4332 (i) the legislative intent was to obliterate all traces of the prosecution and conviction of the probationer, it failed to do so; and for that purpose the requirement that the guilty plea or verdict be stricken is meaningless. “It follows, we think, that the purpose of § 4332(i) is akin to that of a pardon: it forgives but it does not forget. *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he provisions of [the statute] demonstrate a manifest intention on the part of the General Assembly to protect the public from the actions of members of that class of persons who, by their past conduct, have shown themselves unworthy to possess firearms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. State · French 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.