Adams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2011
11 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 Sims v. Commonwealth · Honesty v. Commonwealth · Muscoe v. Commonwealth · Horton v. Commonwealth · Litton v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court further instructs the jury, that the law is that malice may be implied from the deliberate use of a deadly weapon in the absence of proof to the contrary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The verdict of the jury approved hy the trial court settles all material conflicts in the evidence in favor of the Commonwealth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.