Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2011
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pugsley v. Privette · Eckhart v. Commonwealth · Haynes v. Glenn · Flannagan v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance · Harris v. Citizens Bank & Trust 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever the character of a witness for truth is attacked either by direct evidence of want of truth, or by cross-examination, or by proof of contradictory statements in regard to the material facts, or by disproving by other witnesses material facts stated by him in his examination; or, in general, whenever his character for truth is impeached in any way known to the law ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luck v. Miller
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.