Abrams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably State v. McKnight (1968), Collins v. State (1979)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 Jackson v. Denno · Schmerber v. State of California · Ker v. State of California · Preston v. United States · Agnello v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court, prior to defendant making an unsworn statement, failed to correctly advise and instruct him as to his right to have the assistance of counsel and to present evidence in his defense in violation of the 6th and 14th amendments to the United States Constitution and Code Ann. § 38-415 ... in that he failed to instruct the defendant that he had a right to testify under oath as a witness in his own behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“That the nature of the offense for which the accused is arrested has an important bearing upon what objects may be seized as incidental to the arrest is demonstrated in Cooper v. California, [ 386 U. S. 58 , 17 LE2d 730].” Abrams v. State, 223 Ga. 216, 221 ( 154 SE2d 443 ). The defendant was not a doctor, but he was listed in the telephone book as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so far as the record shows the prisoner voluntarily took the stand to make an unsworn statement. He did not announce in open court his intention to testify, as required by the statute. He was represented by competent counsel, and we can assume that defendant elected to make an unsworn statement after consultation and upon advice of his counsel.”
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.