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← 301 GA 153 - Adkins v. State

Adkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
states following
April 2022
most recently cited

38 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Davis v. Washington · Ohler v. United States · Long v. State · Cheddersingh 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Although we may take notice of plain errors affecting substantial rights even when an error is not brought to the attention of the trial court, [if] invited error exists, it precludes a court from invoking the plain error rule and reversing.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] witness, even an expert, can never bolster the credibility of another witness as to whether the witness is telling the truth.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[W]hen we evaluate whether testimony constitutes improper bolstering, we consider the disputed testimony in context[,]”
    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.