State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Swenson v. State (2007), State v. Gutierrez (2007)
30 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Zant v. Stephens · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Angrist v. United States · 62 Ill. 2d 568 - People v. Viser
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TJhe purpose of the felony-murder doctrine is to deter those engaged in felonies from killing negligently or accidentally____ [A] homicide must occur for the felony-murder rule to apply____ [TJhe doctrine [should not be extended] beyond its legislative rationale of deterring foreseeable deaths that occur during an inherently dangerous felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute merely provides alternate methods of proving the deliberation and premeditation required for a conviction of first-degree murder under K.S.A. 21-3401.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Felony murder in Kansas depends upon transferred intent to supply the malice, deliberation, and premeditation elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pulliam
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.