Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2014
20 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 Herrera v. Collins · New Jersey v. New York · Johnson v. Mississippi · West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service · Delta Airlines, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having considered the Motion [to Vacate Judgment and Sentence], the State's Answer thereto, the files and records in this cause, and arguments of counsel, and being otherwise fully advised in the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“filed within two years of the time when [the] statement could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the motion, files, and records in the case conclusively show that the movant is entitled to no relief.”
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.