State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably State v. Engelhardt (2005), People v. Jennings (1911)
6 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Benton v. State · People v. Jones · State v. Cowell
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ .... Whatever testimony tends directly to show the defendant guilty of the crime charged, is competent, although it also tends to show him guilty of another and distinct offense.....A party cannot, by multiplying his crimes, diminish the volume of competent testimony against him. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon the trial of any indictment or information for any offense, where by law there may be conviction of different degrees of such offense, the jury, if they convict the defendant, shall specify in their verdict of what degree of the offense they find the defendant guilty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re McLean · State v. Scarlett““A party cannot, by multiplying bis crimes, diminish the volume of competent testimony agaiiist him.””
2 later decisions 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.