Robinson v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1992
2 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. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Rosado v. Wyman · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Poor relief shall be given on a budgetary basis and shall be sufficient to maintain health and decency, taking into account the requirements and the income and re sources of the recipient. The receipt of other forms of public assistance shall not prevent the receipt of poor relief if additional need exists.””
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.