Robinson v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Ex Parte Granviel (1978), Trinity River Authority v. URS Consultants, Inc. (1994)
88 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 Smith v. Davis · Key Western Life Insurance v. State Board of Insurance · State v. City of Austin · Brown v. City of Galveston · Miller v. County of El Paso
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In passing upon the constitutionality of a statute, we begin with a presumption of validity. It is to be presumed that the Legislature has not acted unreasonably or arbitrarily, and the burden is on one who challenges an act to establish its unconstitutionality."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of IJ · In re I. J.““No bill ... shall contain more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. LeCroy v. Hanlon · Paster v. State“In each instance where a principal has been rearrested and returned to the county wherein his bond was made within 120 days after the date of the final judgment on the bond forfeiture and no appeal has been taken and provided that the principal was rearrested as a result of money spent or information furnished by the surety, the surety thereon may file a motion of remittance in the court commanding the appearance of the principal and the court shall order at least 50 percent of the amount paid on the judgment remitted. The payment shall be made by the county treasurer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams 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.