State v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2005
10 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 State v. Stapleton · State v. Anderson · American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Fox · State v. Clough · State v. Stallings
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the so-called withdrawal doctrine, however, which is as applicable to assault as to homicide, one who was the aggressor or who provoked the difficulty in which he killed (or injured or assaulted) another cannot invoke the right of self-defense to excuse or justify the homicide (or injury or assault), unless he had previously withdrawn from the combat in such a manner as to have shown his intention in good faith to desist.” See also § 563.031 RSMo 1978.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nunn“any theory of innocence ... however improbable that theory may seem, so long as the most favorable construction of the evidence supports it,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Westfall“any theory of the case which his evidence tended to establish,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Westfall
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.