State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 1969 · most notably State v. Moore (1925), Donahue v. Babbitt (1924)
36 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 People v. . O'Sullivan · People v. Abbott · Ballard v. State · State v. Tamler · Strang v. People
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, the principal invoked is unquestioned, although there are in fact many exceptions which it is unnecessary to attempt to point out at this time, as the authorities fully sustain the competency of the evidence offered and admitted in this case, not for the purpose of proving a different offense, but to show the relation and familiarity of the parties', and as corroborative of the prosecutrix’ testimony concerning the particular act relied upon for a conviction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Whitener · State v. Young“"* * * [A]ny witness, after carefully describing the appearance of an absent person may give an opinion as to his age * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Washington
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.