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Robinson v. California

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
370 U.S. 660
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
59 of 59
Citing cases (total)
59
Treatment dates
2024
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. Robinson v. California has been criticized but not overruled in the opinions reviewed. All 59 flagged citations have been read.
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The Supreme Court criticized its Eighth Amendment reasoning in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson while leaving its rule against criminalizing mere status intact, as shown below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

59 later cases cite Robinson v. California; 59 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Criticized

  • The Supreme Court criticized Robinson's Eighth Amendment reasoning as uneasy with the Amendment's text, original meaning, and precedent, while preserving its rule against criminalizing mere status.

    City of Grants Pass v. Johnson · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    As we have seen, Robinson already sits uneasily with the Amendment’s terms, original mean- ing, and our precedents. Its holding is restricted to laws that criminalize “mere status.”
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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