Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Olevik v. State (2017), Green v. State (1990)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Bradley v. United States · Lavelle v. State · Gunn v. State · 180 Ga. App. 43 - Robinson v. State · Tift v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a statute making described conduct a crime is repealed prior to final judgment on a conviction, the repeal ends the prosecution if the legislature has not provided otherwise in a saving clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzalez v. Abbott“the [defendant]'s conduct was no longer defined by the legislature as trafficking in cocaine, [and] therefore, the prosecution in th[e] case was at an end before the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzalez v. Abbott“the legislature repealed the old law and enacted in its place a new law without including a saving clause,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzalez v. Abbott
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.