Cobbs v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 1331 · 1975
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Edwards v. Arizona (1981), State v. Curcio (1983)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Swain v. State of Alabama · Brown v. Allen · Kirby v. Illinois
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although in this instance there was nothing in the case to show that, in the selection of the grand jury, there was any systematic exclusion of an identifiable group or that the jury list was otherwise not a representative cross-section of the community, the method of selection resting as it does entirely in the hands of one person, the sheriff of the county, leaves much to be desired.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Villafane v. Manson
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.