Akins v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1984
8 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 Knight v. Elliott · O'Day v. McDaniel · Martin v. Kitchen · Simmons v. Affolter · Miller v. Medley
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.
““The words of the statute, ‘not within the power,’ should be construed as not within the control or possession of the party wishing to use a copy; that is, not in the possession of the party, his agent, servant, or bailee, or other person under his control. Therefore, if the original is presumed to be in the hands of a third person, a copy may generally be read without the preliminary oath or affidavit of the party wishing to use it; .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walkup v. Evinger
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.