State v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Litherland (2000), State v. Robbins (2009)
33 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 Singer v. United States · 166 W. Va. 153 - State v. Petry · Matter of GLOC · State v. Hutton · State v. Swallow
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“children are often not able to identify with a high degree of reliability, and sometimes not at all, when an event in the past took place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whatever information the prosecutor has that may be useful in helping to fix a date, time or place of the alleged offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“give the defendant the best information it has as to when the alleged crime[s] took place,”
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.