State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Garcia (1992), Sells v. State (1982)
62 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 Tocco v. United States · Prestidge v. United States · State v. Manus · McGeehan v. Bunch · State v. Smith
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not in response to the instigation of a person engaged in investigating, litigating or settling a claim, which narrates, describes or explains an event or condition recently perceived by the declarant, made in good faith, not in contemplation of pending or anticipated legislation in which he was interested, and while his recollection was clear.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacIas · State v. Ross“It follows logically and obviously from the definition that, in order to convict of voluntary manslaughter, the jury must have evidence that there was a sudden quarrel or heat of passion at the time of the commission of the crime (in order, under the common law theory, to show that the killing was the result of provocation sufficient to negate the presumption of malice; (citation omitted)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“A. Voluntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
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.