State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), State v. Long (1978)
39 federal appellate · 140 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · State v. Childs · 149 Ohio St. 231 - Wachendorf v. Shaver · State v. Poole
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he burden of going forward with the evidence of an affirmative defense is upon the accused.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of a nature and quality sufficient to raise the issue must be introduced, from whatever source the evidence may come.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“prove beyond a reasonable doubt every fact necessary to constitute any crime for which it prosecutes a defendant.”
3 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.