Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1985
17 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 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The motion for a directed verdict of acquittal was addressed immediately following the close of the state’s case. The trial judge declined, however, to rule thereon at that time, and stated that the ruling would ‘be held in abeyance until both sides have announced closed.’ Counsel for appellant then announced that appellant would not take the stand or introduce any evidence, whereupon the motion was denied. “We know of no authority for that procedure in a criminal case. Its effect is to cast upon the accused the burden of electing whether he will present testimony in rebuttal of the state’s case and the extent thereof. In many cases the election so forced upon him would make it necessary to determine whether he will present testimony other than his own, and thereby forego the important right of opening and closing the argument before the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“establish[ed] the guilt of the accused beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weinshenker v. State
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.