574 So. 2d 108 - Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably Sochor v. Florida (1992), 722 So. 2d 177 - Donaldson v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 45 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Oregon v. Kennedy · Proffitt v. Florida · Boyde v. California · Maynard v. Cartwright
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`an instantaneous or near-instantaneous death by gunfire' does not satisfy the HAC aggravating factor.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“was not accompanied by additional acts setting it apart from the norm of capital felonies, and there was no evidence that it was committed `to cause the victim unnecessary and prolonged suffering'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“completely contradicted Robinson's version of the crimes,”
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.