Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
March 2000
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Moses v. State · Brown v. State · Durham v. State · Butler v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the time of the act ... constituting the crime, [he] did not have mental capacity to distinguish between right and wrong in relation to such act....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mincey v. Head
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.