Greenfield v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2009
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chimel v. California · Davis v. Alaska · Gault · Fay v. Noia · Chambers v. Mississippi
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court knows of no rule that requires a judge to accept evidence of uncertain value to go to a defense that is otherwise completely uncorroborated. The mere fact that a crime has no eyewitnesses or direct evidence does not warrant a court to accept evidence that may be able to tell the trier of fact something about the crime, but may be of dubious quality. As a constitutional principle then this court simply finds that petitioner’s due process guarantees were not abrogated by the trial court’s refusal to permit the defendant to relate his story under hypnosis. Greenfield at 1120-21 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rock v. State“the very reason for excluding hypnotic evidence is due to its potential unreliability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.