Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Thomas v. State (2002), Ayers v. State (1998)
49 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 Sasser v. State · Bangs v. State · Bilderback v. State · Howard v. State · Richards 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not consider an argument, even a constitutional one, when the appellant presents no citation to authority or convincing argument in its support and it is not apparent without further research that the argument is well taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zook v. Martin · Wooten 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.