Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably 554 So. 2d 887 - Shell v. State (1989), Westbrook v. State (1979)
40 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Malloy v. Hogan · Fahy v. Connecticut · Miller 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . How many witnesses did the defense put on for your consideration?”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. State · Aaron v. State“had every right to call to the jury's attention that there existed no contradictions in the state's case. We cannot visualize any valid objection to a remark of this nature when it cannot be construed as calculated to call a jury's attention to the fact that a defendant has failed to take the witness stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aaron v. State“There has been absolutely no testimony to contradict that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aaron 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.