Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Berry v. State (1986), Parker v. State (1987)
3 federal appellate · 80 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 Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Caton v. State · Westbrook v. State · Perry v. State · Hill v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant also contends that he was entitled to a specific instruction informing the jury that he had placed in issue his mental capacity to form the kind of mental state necessary to establish the commission of the alleged offense. Appellant grounds his contention on Ark. Stat.Ann. § 41-602 (Repl. 1977) [now codified as Ark. Code Ann. § 5-2-303 ] which permits the introduction of evidence of mental disease or defect to determine whether the defendant possessed the kind of culpable mental state required for the commission of the crime charged. However, we do not construe Ark. Stat.Ann. § 41-602 (Repl. 1977) as requiring an instruction of this nature. The statute simply clarifies any issue concerning the admissibility of mental disease evidence when it is less than persuasive in connection with an affirmative defense of insanity. Moreover, the essence of appellant’s proffered instruction is effectively given when the court instructs the jury on the burden of the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt each element of the offense, especially when such instruction is accompanied by an instruction on lesser included offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No right has been more zealously protected by this court than the right of an accused to have the jury instructed on lesser offenses included in the more serious offense charged. Caton & Headley v. State, 252 Ark. 420 , 479 S.W.2d 537 (1972). Where there is the slightest evidence to warrant such an instruction, we have consistently held that it is error to refuse to give it. King v. State, 117 Ark. 82 , 173 S.W. 852 (1915); Walker v. State, 239 Ark. 172 , 388 S.W.2d 13 (1965); Westbrook v. State, 265 Ark. 736 , 580 S.W.2d 702 (1979). This is so, no matter how strongly the trial judge feels that the evidence weighs in favor of a finding of guilty on the most serious charge. Our strong preference for such an instruction has even induced us to approve giving it over the defendant’s objections. Kurck v. State, 235 Ark. 688 , 362 S.W.2d 713 (1962), cert. denied 373 U.S. 910 (1963). Irrespective of a request, however, the court may refuse to give such an instruction when there is absolutely no evidence to support it. Frederick v. State, 258 Ark. 553 , 528 S.W.2d 362 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flurry v. State“there [was] a weighing in [Thomerson's] mind of the consequences of [his] course of conduct as distinguished from acting upon sudden impulse without the exercise of reasoning powers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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