State v. Robbio’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2016
19 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 State v. Coelho · State v. Concannon · State v. Romano · State v. Wyche · State v. McVay
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““proper foundation is established when ‘[t]he witness’s attention [is] * * * directed to the nature of the supposed statements and the circumstances under which they were made.’ Cianci 430 A.2d at 762 . The trial justice must also determine whether the statement is in fact inconsistent with the witness’s testimony and whether the inconsistency is in any way material to the issues involved in the case. Id. Whether the proper foundation has been laid is a question directed to the sound discretion of the trial justice. Id.” Robbio, 526 A.2d at 513 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Calenda
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.