Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2024
19 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 Holder v. State · Hughes v. State · Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad v. Sokal · Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Smith
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . ‘A prosecuting attorney is a public officer ‘acting in a quasi judicial capacity. ’ It is his duty to use all fair, honorable, reasonable and lawful means to secure the conviction of the guilty who are or may be indicted in the courts of his judicial circuit. He should see that they have a fair and impartial trial, and avoid convictions contrary to law. Nothing should tempt him to appeal to prejudices, to pervert the testimony, or make statements to the jury which, whether true or not, have not been proved. The desire for success should never induce him to endeavor to obtain a verdict by arguments based on anything except the evidence in the case and the conclusions legitimately deducible from the law applicable to the same. To convict and punish a person through the influence of prejudice and caprice is as pernicious in its consequences as the escape of a guilty man. The forms of law should never be prostituted to such a purpose.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dillaha v. State“Now gentlemen, if you turn this man loose, go home and tell your daughters that you made it really hard for them today because you turned a man loose that can run over them and take anything from them he wants to, and then come up here and tell a cock and bull story and get away with it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State“The appeal to the jury to put themselves in plaintiff’s place was improper. One doing that would be no fairer judge of the case than would plaintiff herself. . . . Here the mild rebuke of the court was not sufficient to remove from the minds of the jury, the damage done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State
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.