State v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 524 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 550 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Barnes (2002), State v. Smith (1997)
11 federal appellate · 524 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. Melchior · State v. Cotton · 109 Ohio St. 281 - State v. Champion · 115 Ohio St. 308 - State v. Sheets · State v. Doty
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 550 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the slayer was not at fault in creating the situation giving rise to the affray; (2) the slayer has a bona fide belief that he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that his only means of escape from such danger was in the use of such force; and (3) the slayer must not have violated any duty to retreat or avoid the danger.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage““Instantaneous deliberation is not sufficient to constitute ‘prior calculation and design.’ “Where evidence adduced at trial reveals the presence of sufficient time and opportunity for the planning of an act of homicide to constitute prior calculation, and the circumstances surrounding the homicide show a scheme designed to implement the calculated decision to kill, a finding by the trier of fact of prior calculation and design is justified.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person shall purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the death of another.”
7 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.