Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Mitchell v. State (2000), Wilson v. State (2002)
39 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 ANTROBUS v. State · Phillips v. State · Ector v. State · Johnson v. State · McClain 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the record contain[ed] abundant evidence that the taking of Hobbs' property was effectuated by the use of foree against him while he was still alive. That Robinson waited until after Hobbs' death actually to take the property is of no moment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Buggs v. State · Hampton v. State“the spirit of our criminal law would not be fostered by a ruling that [the defendant] could not be convicted of robbing a man he had just killed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Buggs v. State · Hampton v. State“[the gravity of the peril is determined by considering the probable persuasive effect of the misconduct on the jury's decision, rather than the degree of the impropriety of the conduct.”
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.