United States v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
593 F.2d 573 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2004
9 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Di Bella v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Hayes · United States v. Greely
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with 330 district judges, each having [his or her] own views as to what constitutes an illegal search, there never will be achieved any degree of uniformity in the Federal law until the Government is granted the right to appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in many instances the granting of [a motion to suppress] is, in effect, a final order bringing the prosecution to an end . . . if the Government does proceed, it must do so under severe handicaps and limitations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.