People v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the prosecution had knowledge of both cases when the county court case was filed on December 15, 1986; when the district court case was filed approximately one week later; and when it entered into a plea agreement in the county court case on January 22, 1987. However, at no time prior to the defendant’s entry of pleas of guilty in the county court case did the People seek to consolidate the two proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. McCormick

2. “The purposes of compulsory joinder are to protect the accused against the oppressive effect of sequential prosecution based on conduct occurring during the same criminal episode and to conserve judicial and legal resources that otherwise would be wasted in duplicative proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. McCormick