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341 So. 2d 765 - Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

58
cited by 58 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 58 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Enmund v. Florida (1982), Pulley v. Harris (1984)

1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

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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 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Brown v. State · Pope v. State · 336 So. 2d 65 - State v. Terry · Sloan 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'felony murder rule and the law of principals combine to make a felon generally responsible for the lethal acts of his co-felon.'”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Vasil v. State · 399 So. 2d 1362 - Enmund v. State
  2. “"... when committed in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, aircraft piracy, or the unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb, except as provided in subsection (1), it shall be murder in the second degree and shall constitute a felony of the first degree, ... ."”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hite v. State · 347 So. 2d 427 - State v. Jefferson
  3. “committed by a person engaged in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Amlotte v. State · Hite 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.