Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Schmerling v. Injured Workers' Insurance Fund (2002), 89 Ill. 2d 522 - People v. Gervasi (1982)
25 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 Rathbun v. United States · Kimbrough v. United States · Beverly Camp Simpson v. John G. Simpson, III · Gordon v. Texas · 2 Md. App. 756 - Clark 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) “Oral communication” means any conversation or words spoken to or by any person in private conversation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xcept as otherwise specifically provided in this subtitle, it is unlawful for any person to ... [w]illfully intercept ... any ... oral ... communication[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The appellant places some significance on the fact that the mouthpiece of the extension phone was removed. This did not substantially alter the instrument so that it became something other than a telephone. The police could have achieved the same result by having the victim hold her hand over the mouthpiece.” Adams v. State (1981), 289 Md. 221, 229 , 424 A.2d 344, 348 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.