Robison v. Miner’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Watson (1975), Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (2001)
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Beer Company v. Massachusetts · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Bartemeyer v. Iowa · Thorpe v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad · Pervear v. The Commonwealth
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “The Constitution prohibits interference with persons or' property without due process of law. The proceedings under this statute are all highly penal, and treated expressly as criminal proceedings. The Constitution expressly prohibits the issue of warrants of search or seizure of persons or property except on a sworn showing, which, it has always been held, must be of facts on personal knowledge such as would establish the legal probability of the cause of complaint. If the Legislature could evade this by providing for seizures and searches without legal warrant, the provision would be useless.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““This statute is practically, if carried out, a general warrant itself, directing all officers to visit houses and business places without other authority, and make searches and arrests, and close up places of business on their own well or ill founded notion that the law has been violated.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““An act to provide for the taxation and regulation of -the business of manufacturing, selling, keeping for sale, furnishing, giving, or delivering spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and malt, brewed or fermented liquors, and vinous liquors, in this State.” Act No. 313, Pub. Acts 1887.”
2 later decisions 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.