Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2019
8 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 Hill v. State · Henderson v. State · Buckley v. State · Pieper v. State · Thomas v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of the challenged instruction is in conformance with the rule that `uncorroborated testimony [of an accomplice] should be viewed with great caution and suspicion and it must be reasonable and not improbable or self-contradictory or substantially impeached.' Thomas v. State , 340 So.2d 1 , 2 (Miss. 1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he general rule in this state is that where two or more persons are jointly indicted for the same offense, but are separately tried, a judgment of conviction or a plea of guilty against one of them is not competent evidence on the trial of the other....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[O]ne who acts in concert with another in the perpetration of a robbery need not actually wield a weapon in order to be found guilty of armed robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State
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.