636 So. 2d 1264 - Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2011
7 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · United States Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York · Ex Parte Hawkins · 513 So. 2d 38 - Whitson v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All that is necessary is a statement by the arresting officer that his opinion of the nature of the substance is based on his experience or that he has examined the substance and has no doubt that the substance is contraband. There must, however, be something in the record as to why the officer thinks the substance is a controlled one. Ex parte Hawkins , 475 So.2d 489 (Ala. 1985); Whitson v. State , 513 So.2d 38 (Ala.Cr.App. 1987)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he record fail[ed] to show the officer's expertise or the knowledge the he relied on in concluding that the seeds were marijuana”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“and seizures, including cases involving marijuana. The arresting officer testified that, based upon his experience in identifying drugs, he knew without a doubt that the substance he confiscated from the appellant was marijuana. The trial court subsequently issued an order finding that, based upon the arresting officer's testimony, the appellant's petition for writ of habeas corpus was due to be dismissed. Because we agree that the evidence presented at the hearing satisfies the”
1 later decision 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.