Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2005
1 district · 11 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 381 So. 2d 26 - Street v. City of Anniston · Leonard v. Leonard · Brown v. State · 26 Ala. App. 430 - Franks v. State · 42 Ala. App. 529 - Ward 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by proof of impotency on the husband's part, or by want of access to his wife during the time when pregnancy might have occurred, and other conditions in which it was impossible that the husband could have been the father of the child of his wife [born] during the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the statute of limitations in effect at the time the suit is filed, as opposed to the one in effect at the time of the accrual of the cause of action, has been held to apply unless the later statute clearly states the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonably satisfied that the defendant is the father of the child in question . . . this action is barred by the five-year statute of limitations.”
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.