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State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

210
cited by 210 later decisions
4
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

205 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 210 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Rose (1994), State v. Barnes (1997)

205 state decisions

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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 Batson v. Kentucky · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Hernandez v. New York

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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Morgan stands for the principle that a defendant in a capital trial must be allowed to make inquiry as to whether a particular juror would automatically vote for the death penalty. ‘Within this broad principle, however, the trial court has broad discretion to see that a competent, fair, and impartial jury is impaneled; its rulings in this regard will not be reversed absent a showing of abuse of discretion.’ State v. Yelverton, 334 N.C. 532, 541 , 434 S.E.2d 183, 188 (1993).””
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Richardson · State v. Ward
  2. “to eliminate the possibility that a person will be sentenced to die by the action of an aberrant jury.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hipps · State v. Fletcher
  3. “[a]s a check against the capricious or random imposition of the death penalty.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hipps · State v. Fletcher

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.