State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Richmond (1976), Chisley v. State (1953)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 People v. Boss · Commonwealth v. Doris · State v. Nasello · State v. Messino · State v. Glover
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“initial crime and the homicide were parts of one continuous transaction, and were closely connected in time, place, and causal relation as where the killing was done in flight from the scene of the crime to prevent detection or to promote escape.”
7 later decisions 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.