State v. Adamson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably State v. Adams (Slip Opinion) (2015), State v. Brown (2007)
2 federal appellate · 45 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. Long · State v. Moreland · State v. Frazier · State v. Rahman · State v. Clark
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court ignored the level of protection the Rules of Evidence provide. While Evid.R. 601 was amended in 1991 to allow the spouse the decision as to whether to testify against the accused spouse (the decision formerly lay with the accused), the rule still contains important protections for the accused, since it deals with the competency of persons testifying against him. The rule requires that the testifying spouse elect to testify against her spouse. An election is “[t]he choice of an altema-tive[;][t]he internal, free, and spontaneous separation of one thing from another, without compulsion, consisting in intention and will.” Black’s Law Dictionary (5 ed. 1990) 517. Thus, under Evid.R. 601(B), a spouse remains incompetent to testify until she makes a deliberate choice to testify, with knowledge of her right to refuse.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · State v. Okubo“(2) The testifying spouse elects to testify.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adamson · Brown v. State“Notice of plain error under Crim.R. 52(B) is to be taken with the utmost caution, under exceptional circumstances and only to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
2 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.