State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1994
23 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 State v. Wright · State v. Creighton · State v. Starr · State v. Burrell · Orris v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no one is justified in using more force than is necessary to get rid of an assailant,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cook · State v. Littlejohn“Although the defendant may have really believed himself to be in danger, yet he cannot be acquitted on the grounds of self-defense unless it further appears from the evidence that he had reasonable cause for such belief. On the other hand, even if no real danger existed, yet if the defendant had reasonable cause to believe and did believe that it existed, he would be justified in acting upon such belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cook
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.