United States v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 1270 · 1981
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Garza-Juarez (1993)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 844
Relies on Blackledge v. Perry · Santoni v. United States · Abbate v. United States · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. Bravman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the involvement of separate sovereigns tends to negate a vindictive prosecution claim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In almost every case in which courts have condemned prosecutions as vindictive, the defendant ... had been confronted with a more serious or an additional charge arising out of the same nucleus of operative facts as the original charge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'up the ante' by bringing new or more serious charges in response to the exercise of protected rights that violates the due process guarantee.”
3 later decisions 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.