Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Jones v. State (2008), Mitchener v. State (2007)
42 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 430 So. 2d 832 - Read v. State · Brooks v. State · 440 So. 2d 278 - Sanders v. State · Perkins v. State · 597 So. 2d 641 - Harveston 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We adhere to the principle that a post-conviction relief petition which meets basic pleading requirements is sufficient to mandate an evidentiary hearing unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A post-conviction claim for relief is properly dismissed without the benefit of an evidentiary hearing where it is manifestly without merit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] prima facie claim must be stated by the defendant in his petition to the lower court in order to obtain an evidentiary hearing on the merits of an ineffective assistance of counsel issue.”
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.