Robinson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding evidence of defendant’s extramarital sexual affair as relevant to prove motive
• requested instruction was “superfluous” because if the lack of motive raised a reasonable doubt, jury would acquit, having already been instructed that a reasonable doubt must result in an acquittal
• “[I]t is better in all cases for the trial judge not to pick out in instructions specific evidence or particular witnesses and comment upon the weight or consideration to be given to such matters.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Roddy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-09-20· cited 112×
• State v. Bell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2015-09-10· cited 89×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-03-31· cited 74×
• Moore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-11-30· cited 45×
• Minneman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-11-12· cited 39×
• Bennett v. 3 C Coal Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-03-13· cited 38×
• Goolsby v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-12-29· cited 37×
• Tyreese Rowan v. Norman G. Owens, Superintendent, Indiana State Reformatory, Pendleton, Indiana
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-12-28· cited 36×
• Snider v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-11-18· cited 34×
• Wickliffe v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-08-19· cited 32×
• Roberts v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1981-04-27· cited 26×
• Hopkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1975-02-24· cited 25×
• Kriner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-09-22· cited 21×
• Moore v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-07-18· cited 21×
• Landers v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1975-07-31· cited 20×
• Coleman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-09-21· cited 18×
• Lynk v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-08-29· cited 17×
• Holloway v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1976-07-28· cited 15×
• Griffin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-08· cited 14×
• Ostalaza v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-06-26· cited 14×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blackburn v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-01-24· cited 243×
• Zupp v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 68×
• Gayer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1965-10-19· cited 42×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-04-15· cited 30×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-05-21· cited 4×