Adkinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Morgan (1986), The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado v. Vincent Joseph SPOTO (1990)
26 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 Michelson v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Ruffalo v. Mahoning County Bar Ass'n · Johnson v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Burke v. State · Cole v. State“At trial, prosecution and defense witnesses offered differing accounts of how the shooting occurred. Butts’ two companions testified that Adkinson was upset as he approached them, and that although they were conciliatory, Adkinson was belligerent, waving his shotgun around, and eventually, when he was within inches of Steven Butts, pointing the gun directly at him moments before it discharged. Ad-kinson took the stand in his own defense and denied pointing his gun at Butts. Both Adkinson and his wife testified that the weapon was pointed to the side of Butts. Adkinson testified that Butts was agitated, “building himself up into a frenzy,” and attempted to grab the weapon from Adkinson’s hands, thereby pulling it towards himself when it discharged. 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our cases are thus in accord with the orientation of a leading treatise-writer, who urges that a prior crime be 'so related to the crime charged in point of time or circumstances that evidence thereof is significantly useful in showing the defendant's intent in connection with the crime charged,' before evidence of the prior crime is judged more probative than prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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