Adams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2005
20 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 Randolph v. Commonwealth · Compton v. Commonwealth · Fleenor v. Commonwealth · Bailey v. Commonwealth · Brann v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury were [sic] not required to accept the defendant’s statement as to how the [stabbing] occurred simply because the defendant said it happened that way____“If from the improbability of his story and his manner of relating it, or from its contradictions within itself, or by the attending facts and circumstances, the jury are convinced that he is not speaking the truth, they may reject his testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“related to the credibility of [the witness] and the weight which should be given [his] testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Com.
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.