Adams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1986
16 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 People v. Benson · Meade v. Commonwealth · Oleson v. State · Jensen v. Lawrence · Schenk v. Dunkelow
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant admits enough that the question of whether or not he detained this woman with the intention to have carnal knowledge of her should •also have been submitted to the jury by proper instructions, and the failure of the court to. do so was prejudicial error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.