Robinson v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2004
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4161
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is difficult for the court to see how ‘good time’ can ever apply to or be of any benefit to a person serving a life sentence. How can it ever be computed? . . . [G]ood time allowances generally do not, and in logic cannot, be applied against life terms. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Jenkins
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.