Commonwealth v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Freeman (2003), Commonwealth v. Wright (2008)
8 federal appellate · 107 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 Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Morgan v. Illinois · Simmons v. South Carolina · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Harmless error exists where: (1) the error did not prejudice the defendant or the prejudice was de minimis; (2) the erroneously admitted evidence was merely cumulative of other untainted evidence which was substantially similar to the erroneously admitted evidence; or (3) the properly admitted and uncontra-dicted evidence of guilt was so overwhelming and the prejudicial effect of the error was so insignificant by comparison that the error could not have contributed to the verdict.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“]all my life I've been treated so badly.[”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“was capable of forming the specific intent to kill.”
2 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.