State v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Hill (1984), State v. Weeks (1988)
3 federal appellate · 156 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 Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Powell · State v. Hankerson · State v. Foust · State v. Duboise
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice but without premeditation and deliberation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is the duty of the trial court to instruct the jury on the law applicable to the substantive features of the case arising on the evidence, and when there is evidence to support the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter, [the] defendant is entitled to have that offense submitted to the jury under proper instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who kills a human being under the influence of sudden passion, produced by adequate provocation, sufficient to negate malice, is guilty of manslaughter.”
2 later decisions 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.