State v. Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is difficult to explain simple terms like ‘reasonable doubt’ so as to make them plainer. . Every attempt to explain them renders an explanation of the explanation necessary.”
• \It is difficult to explain simple terms like 'reasonable doubt' so as to make them plainer. . . . Every attempt to explain them renders an explanation of the explanation necessary.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Brigham
  California Supreme Court· 1979-09-07· cited 122×
• State v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1970-10-21· cited 110×
• United States v. Robert L. Pinkney
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-08-10· cited 66×
• State v. Lumsden
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1979-11-14· cited 54×
• State v. Carnagy
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1898-10-20· cited 50×
• State v. Morris
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1917-02-27· cited 49×
• Tennis v. General Motors Corp.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1981-11-24· cited 43×
• Nichols v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1898-12-23· cited 40×
• State v. DeWitt
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1905-01-31· cited 40×
• Kaufman v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1914-03-17· cited 36×
• People v. Garcia
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-12-29· cited 35×
• State v. Abram
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1976-06-14· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Devaney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1902-06-18· cited 32×
• State v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1973-04-09· cited 24×
• State v. Darling
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1906-11-20· cited 22×
• State v. Tucker
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1910-12-27· cited 20×
• United States v. Campbell
  N.D. Iowa· 1956-02-13· cited 19×
• State v. Foster
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1905-11-24· cited 19×
• People v. Provost
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1906-04-30· cited 19×
• State v. Wells
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1957-10-14· cited 17×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Patterson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1881-04-15· cited 83×
• State v. Hopkirk
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1884-10-15· cited 76×
• State v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1887-10-15· cited 20×
• State v. Culler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1884-10-15· cited 19×
• State v. Phelps
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1881-10-15· cited 15×