Robison v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 1501 · 1987
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Osborn v. Shillinger (1988), Samarzia v. Clark County (1989)
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2107 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Lockett v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n individual’s personal opinion on how the sentencing jury should acquit its re sponsibility, even though supported by reasons, relates to neither the character or record of the defendant nor to the circumstances of the offense. Such testimony, at best, would be a gossamer veil which would blur the jury's focus on the issue it must decide.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasons why Petitioner's state appellate counsel did not raise the issue of prosecutorial misconduct in the state appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reasonable probability the outcome of the trial would have been different”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Cowley · Green v. Roberts
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.