State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 46 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Further, we have determined that: All reasonable care, and the utmost good faith, must be exercised by the prosecutor, when questioning an accused about prior convictions, to the end that an accused is not prejudiced by suggestions that he has been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony, when in fact he has not been so convicted. We do not believe that cross-examination of an accused based solely on information contained in an “F.B.I. rap sheet" can ordinarily be said to be consistent with the exercise of all reasonable care and the utmost good faith.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Herrera

2. “‘Where a constitutional right to counsel exists ... there is a correlative right to representation that is free from conflicts of interest.” A lawyer who represents co-defendants whose interests conflict cannot provide the adequate legal assistance required by the Sixth Amendment. Although the violation of the right to effective assistance of counsel does not depend on a showing of prejudice, a defendant must show that his counsel actively represented conflicting interests.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Churchman v. Dorsey

3. “`[i]f it is improper to prove [actual misbehavior] by extrinsic testimony on the stand, it is doubly improper to attempt to prove it by hearsay, and trebly improper when accompanied by a prohibition of any rebuttal of the hearsay by the witness or by others on his behalf.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Brooks