Adams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2013
12 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 Chappell v. Commonwealth · Miller v. Commonwealth · Little v. Commonwealth · Hannah v. Commonwealth · Lanter v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [T]hat the statute described only one offense, namely, assault with intent to rob, which could be committed in two different ways: (a) by the use of an offensive weapon or instrument, and (b) by threatening the victim in a forcible and violent manner, regardless of whether a weapon is used. This construction of the statute has been reaf firmed in subsequent cases. Little v. Commonwealth, 246 Ky. 805 , 56 S.W.2d 526 ; Terrill v. Commonwealth, 248 Ky. 613 , 59 S.W.2d 564 ; Lanter v. Commonwealth, 268 Ky. 53 , 103 S.W.2d 693 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.