Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2012
15 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 Wong Sun v. United States · 455 So. 2d 944 - Swann v. City of Huntsville · 518 So. 2d 221 - Mason v. City of Vestavia Hills · 342 So. 2d 933 - Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Skelton v. City of Birmingham
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`interpreted narrowly to apply only to "fighting words.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[Fighting words] by their very utterance provoke a swift physical retaliation and incite an immediate breach of the peace.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"(a)(1) Harassment. A person commits the crime of harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he: ".... "b. Directs abusive or obscene language or makes an obscene gesture towards another person."”
5 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.