Robinson v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 1 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Cintolo (1987), Matlock v. Rose (1984)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Harriss · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · United States v. Mazurie · Francis v. Henderson · United States v. Powell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an argument premised on the unconstitutionality of a statute for vagueness does not address the issue of differing potential punishments. Unless prosecutorial abuse of discretion in charging [a defendant] under the harsher statute is alleged ... we see no due process violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A statute whose terms have a commonly understood meaning or have been clarified by judicial explanation or by application to particular conduct is not unconstitutionally vague”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The essence of the fair warning requirement embodied in the due process clause is that a person should not be punished for an act he could not know was criminal.”
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.