State v. Robinette’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 720 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 725 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Ferris v. State (1999), State v. Leak (Slip Opinion) (2016)
3 federal appellate · 720 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Ohio v. Robinette · State v. Robinette
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 725 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[W]hen the subject of a search is not in custody and the State attempts to justify a search on the basis of his consent, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments require that it demonstrate that the consent was in fact voluntarily given, and not the result of duress or coercion, express or implied. Voluntariness is a question of fact to be determined from all the circumstances, and while the subject's knowledge of a right to refuse is a factor to be taken into account, the prosecution is not required to demonstrate such knowledge as a prerequisite to establishing a voluntary consent'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[f]rom the totality of the circumstances, it appears that [the defendant] merely submitted to 'a claim of lawful authority' rather than consenting as a voluntary act of free will. Under Royer , this is not sufficient to prove voluntary compliance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.