Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Cook v. State (1999), Pennie v. State (1999)
26 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Irvin v. Dowd · Kentucky v. Stincer · Williams v. State · Gibbons 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All voir dire should take place in the courtroom in the presence of all parties. However, ... fundamentally, the entry of individuals summonsed for jury duty and the preliminary qualifying questions by the [trial court judge] to the venire was neither a trial nor a pre-trial procedure involving any specific defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neale 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.