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← 355 N.C. 320 - State v. Robinson

State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

158
cited by 158 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

156 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Sutton v. United States · State v. Smith · David W. McKay v. Texas · State v. Benson

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

  1. “Evidence is substantial if it is relevant and adequate to convince a reasonable mind to accept a conclusion.”
    26 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the trial court must determine only whether there is substantial evidence of each essential element of the offense charged and of the defendant being the perpetrator of the offense.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[a]n attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon occurs when a person, with the specific intent to unlawfully deprive another of personal property by endangering or threatening his life with a dangerous weapon, does some overt act calculated to bring about this result.”
    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.