Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We agree with the Second and Third District Courts of Appeal to the extent that the act of stealthily picking a person's pocket, without any accompanying resistance or struggle, does not constitute robbery. Nevertheless, we find that the degree of force used in snatching someone's purse or other property from their person, even where that person does not resist and is not injured, is sufficient to satisfy the force or violence element of robbery in Florida.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 692 So. 2d 883 - Robinson v. State

2. “[A]ny offense, substantially similar in elements and penalties to an offense in this state, which is in violation of a law of any other jurisdiction, whether that of another state, the District of Columbia, the United States or any possession or territory thereof, or any foreign jurisdiction, that was punishable under the law of such jurisdiction at the time of its commission by the defendant by death or imprisonment exceeding 1 year.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 692 So. 2d 883 - Robinson v. State