Robles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Banks v. State (2007), Ramirez v. State (2005)
35 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 · Jackson v. Denno · Scott v. State · Fults v. State · Jackson 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The single purpose for voir dire is the ascertainment of the impartiality of jurors, their ability to treat the cause on the merits with objectivity and freedom from bias and prior inclination. The control of the pursuit of such determination is within the sound legal discretion of the trial- court, and only in the event of manifest abuse will it be upset upon review. 1”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Questions as to the reasonableness of hypotheses are generally to be decided by the jury which heard the evidence and where the jury is authorized to find that the evidence, though circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt, that finding will not be disturbed unless the verdict of guilty is insupportable as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“she could not stand in judgment of another due to her religious beliefs and would not look at any evidence concerning a burned child”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pennington 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.