Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 182 Ind. App. 156 - Roddy v. State (1979), Wilson v. State (1978)
3 federal appellate · 61 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 Blackburn v. State · Zupp v. State · Gayer v. State · Porter v. State · Miller 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If upon careful examination of all the evidence, the State has failed to show any motive on the part of the accused to commit the crime charged against her, then this is a circumstance which you the jury should consider in favor of the accused in making up your verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kriner 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.