Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Brewer v. State (1981), Burris v. State (1984)
75 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 Michelson v. United States · Blackburn v. State · Ashton v. Anderson · Haddock v. State · Payne 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] witness may be cross examined not only as to his own testimony on direct examination, but also as to all matters within his knowledge which are pertinent or material to the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ithout evidence to the contrary, we presume there were legitimate reasons for the tactical decisions which are at issue on this appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial attorney's reasons for his decisions remain unexplained,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.