State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jones (1972), State v. Aldershof (1976)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Britain v. Rice · State v. Parker · Routt v. State · State v. White · State v. Broderick
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Undeniably, to constitute the offense of robbery, the force used must precede or be contemporaneous with the taking of the property. So, too, it is indisputable that where one snatches a valuable article from another it is robbery when force is exercised in overcoming the resistance of the person robbed or in detaching the article taken where it is fastened to the clothing or person of the victim. But where the article is merely snatched from the hands of another, the offense is stealing, not robbery. (Citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule prevailing in most jurisdictions is that the mere snatching or sudden taking of property from the person of another does not in itself involve such force, violence, or putting in fear as will constitute robbery * * *. The authorities are agreed that a sudden taking or snatching may be accompanied by sufficient force to constitute robbery. Thus, if a struggle immediately ensues to keep possession of the property and the thief overcomes the resistance, or the article snatched is so attached to the owner’s •person as to afford resistance or injure the possessor in the taking, the violence is sufficient to constitute the act a robbery. (Emphasis ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Butler“In State v. Thompson, Mo. Sup., 238 S.W. 115 , it was held that a submissible case of robbery was made where there was testimony that defendant grabbed a bag containing money which was held by a woman and that she tried to hold onto it but he wrenched the bag from her arm by force. Also, in State v. Broderick, 59 Mo. 318 [1875], there was held to be sufficient violence to support a conviction of robbery where defendant grabbed the watch chain of the victim with such violence as to break the chain and straighten out the hook which fastened it into a button hole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Butler
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.