561 So. 2d 419 - Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2011
9 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 United States v. O'Neill · 525 So. 2d 477 - Smith v. State · 411 So. 2d 1352 - Goree v. State · 547 So. 2d 288 - Beachum v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court still denied the continuance, although he did schedule the trial near the end of the docket. The jury found Mr. Trocola guilty of three of the charged offenses. He seeks a new trial arguing that the trial judge abused its discretion in denying a continuance. As a general rule, the denial of a motion for continuance is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and the action of the court will not be disturbed on appeal unless there is a clear showing that there has been a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trocola v. State“virtually eliminated the defendant's option of not testifying”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ostolaza 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.