Adkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Hoag (1956), Sutton v. Commonwealth (1985)
30 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 Gebardi v. United States · United States v. Farrar · State v. Nahoum · In Re Cooper · Rosser 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no jury trial in the instant case, and we have not overlooked the fact that jeopardy, as ordinarily understood in legal parlance, refers to the dojnger of conviction and punishment which a defendant incurs in a criminal case where a jury has been empaneled and sworn. But we are of the opinion that the spirit and purpose of the immunity intended to be secured by the doctrine in question [former jeopardy] will be violated whenever a defendant in any criminal case has been formerly tried by competent authority — whether court or jury — and discharged upon a defense constituting a bar to the proceeding, whether that defense be rested upon the law or the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is not a syllable [in the order sustaining the demurrer] which indicates that the demurrer was sustained without prejudice. There is not a word in it which indicates that the demurrer was sustained on the ground that it was defective in form. The court, as evinced by the order, sustained the demurrer as to each count thereof on the ground relied upon by the accused and discharged him “without day.” This, in our opinion, was an ultimate decision upon a question of law----”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A fact once determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a criminal proceeding cannot again be litigated between the same parties unless a different rule applies in criminal proceedings from that which obtains in civil proceedings, but it is well settled that the rule is the same in both classes of cases.”
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.