Robinson v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.2d 757 · 1981
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), Holloway v. United States (1992)
20 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Rodriquez v. United States · Cook v. United States · Morrow v. Parratt · Williams v. United States · Dillane v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Those whose right to appeal has been frustrated should be treated exactly like any other appellant; he should not be given an additional hurdle to clear just because the rights were violated at some earlier stage in the proceedings. Accordingly, we hold that the courts below erred in rejecting petitioner’s application for relief because of his failure to specify the points he would raise were his right to appeal reinstated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abels v. Kaiser“where none of Robinson’s alleged errors were preserved for review, we have no difficulty concluding that Robinson was denied his right to a direct appeal of his conviction and that he was denied his constitutional right to effective counsel— just as much as if counsel had never filed a notice of appeal.”
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.