State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Dennis (1997), State v. Conway (2006)
159 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 Chapman v. State of California · Brown v. United States · State v. Lytle · State v. Curry · State v. Bayless
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inconsistency in a verdict does not arise out of inconsistent responses to different counts, but only arises out of inconsistent responses to the same count.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * consistency between the verdicts on the several counts of an indictment * * * is unnecessary where defendant is convicted on one or some counts but acquitted on - 14 - others, and the conviction will generally be upheld irrespective of its rational incompatibility with the acquittal.”
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.