Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2010
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Strickland v. Washington · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Licht v. Texas Commerce Bank · Lawrence v. State · Lindsey 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State contends that Robertson has waived many of the issues which he now presents to this court because he failed to raise them in his direct appeal. We agree with the State that posteonvietion proceedings are not a substitute for a direct appeal and issues which could have been raised on direct appeal may not be raised in a post-conviction proceeding. Generally, allegations of error available but not asserted on direct appeal are waived for purposes of post-conviction relief. However, at no point during the postconviction proceedings did the State raise the defense of waiver, neither did the post-conviction court find waiver, rather, the State responded to and the court based its findings upon the merits of Robertson’s argument which we must do as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Hanks“The police informant who arranged the transactions with [Robertson] on behalf of the undercover officer testified that on the three occasions charged she observed [Robertson] deliver to the police officer what appeared to her to be cocaine and witnessed the officer pay [Robertson] cash for the contraband. The police officer who actually purchased the cocaine from [Robertson] on each of the charged occasions testified concerning the details of the transactions in a manner consistent with that of the informant. Of course, the state established a chain of custody for the exhibits containing the contraband and offered evidence that the substances delivered were in part cocaine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Hanks“Most importantly, the crimes were committed as a result of a police sting operation. As a result of this operation, Beno was hooked once. The State then chose to let out a little more line and hook Beno for a second offense. There is nothing that would have prevented the State from conducting any number of additional buys and thereby hook Beno for additional crimes with each subsequent sale. We understand the rationale behind conducting more than one buy during a sting operation, however, we do not consider it appropriate to then impose maximum and consecutive sentences for each additional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saunders v. State
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.